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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. Based on Chapter 14, "The Universe of Ideas/Ideas of the Universe," what would Foster call a journalist writing about a biologist and her discoveries?
(a) Expert testimony.
(b) Journalistic compilation.
(c) Amateur profiles.
(d) Interrogation of text.

2. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," how does Foster apply the idea of "free indirect speech" to New Journalism?
(a) He uses it to compare New Journalism with immersive journalism.
(b) He uses it to label Wolfe's attempt to recreate the inner lives of his subjects.
(c) He uses it to explain how Thompson narrates his own thoughts.
(d) He uses it to contrast New Journalism with fiction.

3. Based on Chapter 14, "The Universe of Ideas/Ideas of the Universe," what would Foster call a neuroscientist reporting on and analyzing recent developments in neuroscience?
(a) Expert testimony.
(b) Journalistic compilation.
(c) Amateur profiles.
(d) Interrogation of text.

4. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," what does Foster tell us begins Ben Franklin's autobiography?
(a) The dramatic moment when the Declaration is signed.
(b) A description of Franklin's childhood.
(c) Excerpts from a speech Franklin gave while serving as Ambassador to France.
(d) A letter to his son.

5. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," Foster says that Fire and Fury was "incendiary" (189). He is comparing the book to what?
(a) A riot.
(b) An iceberg.
(c) A storm.
(d) A bomb.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 14, "The Universe of Ideas/Ideas of the Universe," what does Foster say is true about contemporary America?

2. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," what form does Foster say takes its name from the French term for reminiscence?

3. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," what criticism does Foster level at Comey's book A Higher Loyalty?

4. According to Foster in Chapter 9, Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is an example of what type of nonfiction?

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," why does Foster say that Hunter S. Thomson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is really a roman à clef?

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

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 criticism does Foster level at Fox News?

5. 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?

6. In Chapter 12, "That Is So Last Year," what change in "fashion" does Foster say that the publishing of history has followed in the past decades?

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

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

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

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

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