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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Chapter 13,"On the Stump" through Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," Foster points out that Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me begins similarly to which other work?
(a) Dreams from My Father.
(b) The Year of Magical Thinking.
(c) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Apologia Pro Vita Sua.

2. In Chapter 6, "Source Code," what consequence does Foster say the rise of the internet has had?
(a) A decline in the average American's reading ability.
(b) A lack of respect for, and recognition of, expertise.
(c) A new respect for minority opinions.
(d) A rise in people's awareness of current events.

3. In Chapter 3, "The Power of the Prologue," Foster uses the word "etymologically" to describe what?
(a) Similar sounding words.
(b) The definitions of words.
(c) The opposites of words.
(d) The origins of words.

4. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," what does Foster say is the purpose of the academic five-paragraph essay?
(a) It is the most that students are capable of before college.
(b) It is the preferred format for professional writing.
(c) It teaches students to organize their thoughts.
(d) It is a flexible and useful format for anything a student might need to write about.

5. In Chapter 12, "Life from the Inside," Foster discusses primary and secondary sources. Which of the following would be a secondary source about World War Two?
(a) An editorial in the New York Times opposing American involvement in the war.
(b) A historical account in a 2020 textbook about the attack on Pearl Harbor.
(c) A 1942 letter from an overseas American soldier to his parents.
(d) A collection of English WWII military maps and charts discovered many years after the war.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," what does Foster say is true of the sports section?

2. In Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," Foster makes the point that during the Nassar scandal, the Lansing State Journal did what?

3. In Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," what reason does Foster give for journalists generally being proved correct despite public mistrust?

4. In Chapter 12, "Life from the Inside," why does Foster think Ambrose chose Merriwether Lewis's perspective for his history Undaunted Courage?

5. According to "The Building Blocks of Arguments," what is the implicit argument of most nonfiction writing?

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