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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 15, "Reading Internet Sources," what does Foster say the contemporary world lacks?
2. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," what does Foster call inaccurate information?
3. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," Foster alludes to Peyton Place because he is implying that Fire and Fury is essentially what?
4. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," Foster says that Fire and Fury was "incendiary" (189). He is comparing the book to what?
5. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," what document does Foster call the "ultimate political expression of [the] Enlightenment insistence on the individual" (146)?
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 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?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. In "Interrogating the Text," where does Foster suggest that readers focus their interrogative effort, and why?
6. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," what concern does Foster say that other journalists have about Wolff's work?
7. 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?
8. In Chapter 12, "That Is So Last Year," what difference does Foster explain between primary and secondary sources?
9. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," what does Foster say is problematic about the internet and web?
10. 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?
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
Choose a piece of science writing and evaluate it according to the standards laid out in "Interrogating the Text."
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," Foster proposes that newspapers write the "first draft" of history, magazines write the "second draft," and history books write the "final draft." Argue for or against this claim--or accept it with qualifications.
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