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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 12, "Life from the Inside," Foster calls Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation "pointillist" (179). What quality is he saying this book has?
(a) A focus on individual voices at the expense of institutional perspective.
(b) A focus on immediacy at the expense of long-term perspective.
(c) A focus on detail at the expense of continuity.
(d) A focus on the "big picture" at the expense of fine detail.

2. According to Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," at what level are most news stories written?
(a) The ninth to eleventh grade levels.
(b) The college sophomore level.
(c) The twelfth grade level.
(d) The fourth to sixth grade levels.

3. In Chapter 6, "Source Code," which is the only type of nonfiction that Foster says doesn't need "rock-solid" sources (69)?
(a) Reportage.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Biography.
(d) Memoir.

4. In Chapter 6, "Source Code," where does Foster suggest writers should gather information about historical figures?
(a) History books.
(b) Biographies.
(c) Newspaper archives.
(d) Primary sources.

5. Whose Apologia Pro Vita Sua is discussed in Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside"?
(a) Augustine of Hippo.
(b) Charles Kingsley.
(c) John Henry, Cardinal Newman.
(d) The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster makes what point about newspaper articles?

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

3. In Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," Foster describes the Larry Nassar scandal as an illustration of what?

4. In Chapter 5, "It May Just Be Me, But..." what does Foster say is usually the difference between quoted anonymous sources and sources speaking "on background"?

5. In Chapter 3, "The Power of the Prologue," what does Foster give as the basic meaning of "preface," "prologue," and "foreward"?

(see the answer key)

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