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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is being discussed in Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," when Foster says that the "form and tone of the essay must fit the writer like a suit" (144)?
(a) Style and voice.
(b) Conflict and theme.
(c) Subjectivity and attachment.
(d) Characterization and personality.

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

3. In Chapter 12, "Life from the Inside," what advantage does Foster say elapsed time gives to historical accounts?
(a) Immediacy.
(b) Objectivity.
(c) Perspective.
(d) Accuracy.

4. Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," ends with the date of singer Roy Orbison's birthday. What is Foster's purpose in placing this piece of information here?
(a) To create suspense.
(b) To illustrate his point about trust.
(c) To create humor.
(d) To offer support for his criticism of Wikipedia.

5. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," what form does Foster say takes its name from the French term for reminiscence?
(a) Autobiography.
(b) Confessions.
(c) Memoir.
(d) Biography.

6. In Chapter 14, "The Universe of Ideas/Ideas of the Universe," what criticism does Foster level against Malcolm Gladwell?
(a) That he tries to write outside of his own field.
(b) That he does not try to engage the reader.
(c) That he does not examine data critically enough.
(d) That he offers so much data it can be difficult to follow his arguments.

7. 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 that translates a novel in another language into English.
(b) It is an autobiographical book about journalism.
(c) It is a work of fiction that parodies a work of journalism.
(d) It is a book of nonfiction thinly disguised as fiction.

8. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," what criticism does Foster level at Comey's book A Higher Loyalty?
(a) The logic of two key passages is suspect.
(b) The use of hearsay.
(c) The omniscient narrative style.
(d) The attribution of sources.

9. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," which authors does Foster point out as not engaged in New Journalism?
(a) Mailer and Didion.
(b) Woodward and Bernstein.
(c) Capote and Agee.
(d) Breslin and Talese.

10. 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) Apologia Pro Vita Sua.
(c) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
(d) The Year of Magical Thinking.

11. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," what does Foster call the "most famous" African American autobiography (171)?
(a) Dreams from My Father.
(b) Between the World and Me.
(c) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
(d) The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

12. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," what historical era does Foster tie New Journalism to?
(a) The counterculture movement of the 1960's.
(b) World War Two.
(c) The Great Depression.
(d) The "Reagan Revolution" of the 1980's.

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

14. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," Foster says that the outsider exposé has what advantage over the insider exposé?
(a) Objectivity.
(b) Perspective.
(c) Immediacy.
(d) Accuracy.

15. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," which author does Foster say is at the opposite "pole" of New Journalism from Hunter S. Thompson?
(a) Tom Wolfe.
(b) Joan Didion.
(c) Raoul Duke.
(d) Truman Capote.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Interrogating the Text," what does Foster say most authors will do?

3. Whose Apologia Pro Vita Sua is discussed in Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside"?

4. In "Interrogating the Text," where does Foster say the "three questions" originate?

5. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," which work does Foster say is likely the first example of New Journalism?

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