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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," Foster discusses the use of parallelism. He is discussing what technique?
2. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," which work does Foster say is likely the first example of New Journalism?
3. 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?
4. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," what important characteristic of the essay does Foster point out?
5. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," what criticism does Foster level at Comey's book A Higher Loyalty?
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. 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.
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," what does Foster propose as a solution to inaccuracies on the web?
6. In "Interrogating the Text," where does Foster suggest that readers focus their interrogative effort, and why?
7. In Chapter 14, "The Universe of Ideas/Ideas of the Universe," what are the three types of science writing that Foster describes, and what are the differences among them?
8. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," what does Foster list as the three criteria of Ezra Pound's criticism?
9. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," what does Foster say is problematic about the internet and web?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter 9, "Living the News," Foster discusses the work of Joan Didion. Write an essay in which you describe his tone in this discussion of Didion and then analyze how he creates this tone.
Essay Topic 2
On page 89 of Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster makes the claim that "there are comparatively few books written that own nothing to the passage of time" (89). Explain his meaning here and then use factual evidence to evaluate the strength of his claim.
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 16, "Social (Media) Disease," Foster discusses clickbait and its tendency to inflate reader expectations. Consider how titles and subtitles used in print books and magazines are similar to and different from the use of titles as online clickbait. Write an essay that compares and contrasts these two uses of titles.
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