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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 15, "Reading Internet Sources," what does Foster say the main role of editors is?
(a) Proofreading.
(b) Critical thinking.
(c) Protecting the interests of the public.
(d) Protecting the interests of media owners.

2. In Chapter 12, "Life from the Inside," what advantage does Foster say contemporaneous accounts have?
(a) They allow the reader to understand the world as it is in the present.
(b) They offer a long view on historical events.
(c) They offer a narrower--and therefore easier to understand--view of history.
(d) They allow the writer to consult sources from a variety of viewpoints.

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

4. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," what document does Foster call the "ultimate political expression of [the] Enlightenment insistence on the individual" (146)?
(a) The Declaration of Independence.
(b) Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
(c) Apologia Pro Vita Sua.
(d) A Room of One's Own.

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?
(a) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
(b) The Year of Magical Thinking.
(c) Dreams from My Father.
(d) Apologia Pro Vita Sua.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," which author does Foster say is at the opposite "pole" of New Journalism from Hunter S. Thompson?

3. Based on Chapter 14, "The Universe of Ideas/Ideas of the Universe," what would Foster call a journalist writing a general survey of the field of string theory?

4. In Chapter 14, "The Universe of Ideas/Ideas of the Universe," what are two reasons Foster points to for disbelief in science?

5. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," Foster refers to ARPANET. What is ARPANET?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," what are the three categories that Foster says outsider exposés fall into, and why does he say that they are more reliable than insider's writings?

2. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," Foster reveals the central issue of the book. What does he say the issue is, and why does he believe it is worth devoting a book to?

3. 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.

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

5. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," what does Foster say is the difference between autobiography and memoir?

6. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," what criticism does Foster level at Fox News?

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

8. In "Interrogating the Text," where does Foster suggest that readers focus their interrogative effort, and why?

9. Which of the three writers that Foster discusses in Chapter 13, "On the Stump," does Foster find to be least reliable, and which does he find to be most reliable? Why is this?

10. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," what does Foster list as the three criteria of Ezra Pound's criticism?

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