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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Chapter 16, "Social (Media) Disease" through "Conclusion".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," Foster refers to White House staff as "denizens" (190). What is the best definition of this word in this context?
(a) Occupants.
(b) Children.
(c) Horrors.
(d) Caretakers.

2. 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 1942 letter from an overseas American soldier to his parents.
(c) A collection of English WWII military maps and charts discovered many years after the war.
(d) A historical account in a 2020 textbook about the attack on Pearl Harbor.

3. In Chapter 16, "Social (Media) Disease," what criticism does Foster make about social media friend networks?
(a) Most of the people in them are not really friends and have little in common.
(b) They make it far too easy to share misinformation.
(c) They are easily exploited by data miners.
(d) The decrease people's engagement with their real-world friends and family.

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

5. In Chapter 16, "Social (Media) Disease," Foster calls online social connections a "vector" (267). The logical extension of this analogy is that the ideas people share on social media are what?
(a) Patients.
(b) Symptoms.
(c) Viruses.
(d) Medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," what does Foster call works that people write about their own experiences with illness and dying?

2. The section of this book called "The Books in the Book" is what part of the book?

3. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster tells us that changing the structure of a story changes its what?

4. In Chapter 6, "Source Code," where does Foster suggest writers should gather information about historical figures?

5. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," what does Foster say is the difference between "hard news" and "soft news"?

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