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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 9, "Living the News," what does Foster say is responsible for Didion's characteristic style?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Politics.
(c) Education.
(d) Gender.

2. In Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," Foster describes the Larry Nassar scandal as an illustration of what?
(a) The importance of community newspapers.
(b) How major universities sometimes engage in cover ups.
(c) The ways in which trusted people can betray others.
(d) The difficulties of investigative journalism.

3. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," Foster discusses the use of parallelism. He is discussing what technique?
(a) The use of tone that mimics the subject under discussion.
(b) The repetition of grammatical structures.
(c) The exact repetition of words and phrases.
(d) The use of multiple, similar examples.

4. In "Interrogating the Text," Foster says that readers should beware of ad hominem arguments. What he means is that readers should be suspicious when writers do what?
(a) Attack the people making arguments instead of the arguments themselves.
(b) Appeal to emotion rather than to logic.
(c) Contend that because something is new it must be better or more correct.
(d) Portray the opposition argument as much weaker than it actually is.

5. In "Interrogating the Text," Foster says that he himself tends to "eschew" notes. He is saying what about his use of notes?
(a) He backs up his notes with a Works Cited section.
(b) He does not use them.
(c) His notes are sometimes disorganized.
(d) He tends to provide too many.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster uses as examples two books that have the same subject matter--Fear, and Fire and Fury. What subject matter do these books have in common?

2. In Chapter 12, "Life from the Inside," Foster says that an author of a history about long-ago events is not really so much a reporter as a what?

3. In Chapter 6, "Source Code," what consequence does Foster say the rise of the internet has had?

4. In Chapter 5, "It May Just Be Me, But..." what does Foster say about offering a source the chance to correct themselves if they claim that they misspoke?

5. According to Foster in Chapter 9, "Living the News," what is McPhee's purpose in comparing geological change over time to a road trip?

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