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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," Foster cites Wikipedia as the source of his information about the development of the internet. What might we reasonably call his use of Wikipedia as a source?
(a) Careless.
(b) Scholarly.
(c) Ironic.
(d) Engaging.

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

4. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," what does Foster say a subreddit is?
(a) An older form of crowd-sourced encyclopedia.
(b) A discussion board for a specific topic.
(c) A clearinghouse for memes.
(d) A disguised criticism of another post.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," what does Foster say leads to better thinking?

2. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," Foster alludes to Peyton Place because he is implying that Fire and Fury is essentially what?

3. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," what historical era does Foster tie New Journalism to?

4. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," Foster says that the chief aim of Fire and Fury is to demonstrate what?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," what two main types of subjective nonfiction does Foster define, and what four categories does he break these main types into?

2. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," what does Foster propose as a solution to inaccuracies on the web?

3. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," why does Foster say that the process newspapers follow to assure balanced treatment in opinion pieces creates a false dichotomy?

4. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," what concern does Foster say that other journalists have about Wolff's work?

5. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," why does Foster say that Woodward and Bernstein do not belong in the category of New Journalism?

6. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," what does Foster say is problematic about the internet and web?

7. Explain why, in Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," Foster says that the narrators of nonfiction can be just as unreliable as the narrators of fiction.

8. In Chapter 12, "That Is So Last Year," what difference does Foster explain between primary and secondary sources?

9. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," what characteristics does Foster say the thesis of a strong essay will have?

10. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," why does Foster say that Hunter S. Thomson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is really a roman à clef?

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