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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 15, "Reading Internet Sources," what does Foster call the "fatal flaw" of the internet?
(a) A lack of quality control.
(b) Too many editors.
(c) The cost of connecting to it.
(d) The hierarchy of gatekeepers.

2. In "Interrogating the Text," where does Foster say the "three questions" originate?
(a) Stephen Ambrose, author of Undaunted Courage.
(b) John McPhee, Pulitzer-Prize-winning nonfiction author.
(c) William Shawn, an editor at The New Yorker.
(d) Stephen Toulmin, British philosopher and logician.

3. In Chapter 12, "Life from the Inside," what does Foster suggest that Ambrose loses by choosing to focus on Lewis?
(a) The chance to engage a wider audience of readers.
(b) A variety of perspectives.
(c) Information about what happened after Lewis's death.
(d) The reader's trust.

4. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," Foster calls Fear and Loathing a roman à clef. What is he saying about this book?
(a) It is a work of fiction that parodies a work of journalism.
(b) It is an autobiographical book about journalism.
(c) It is a work that translates a novel in another language into English.
(d) It is a book of nonfiction thinly disguised as fiction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," what does Foster say is the main difference between New Journalism and immersive journalism?

2. In Chapter 5, "It May Just Be Me, But..." Foster says that a source's quote can be "emended" (55). What happens to an emended quote?

3. 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?

4. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," Foster says that a look at social media reveals what about Americans of all political persuasions?

5. In Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," one of the main points that Foster wants to make about All the President's Men is that it is a kind of writing he calls what?

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