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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Chapter 9, "Living the News" through Chapter 12, "That Is So Last Year".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster uses the Latin expression in media res. What does this expression mean?
(a) In the middle of things.
(b) In strict chronological order.
(c) In narrative form.
(d) In the form of a circle.

2. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," which work does Foster say is likely the first example of New Journalism?
(a) Hell's Angels.
(b) The Armies of the Night.
(c) The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
(d) In Cold Blood.

3. In Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," Foster describes the Larry Nassar scandal as an illustration of what?
(a) The importance of community newspapers.
(b) How major universities sometimes engage in cover ups.
(c) The ways in which trusted people can betray others.
(d) The difficulties of investigative journalism.

4. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster discusses Pollan's How to Change Your Mind as an example of what?
(a) Why self-help books are better off using a chronological structure.
(b) Why self-help books can use many non-chronological structures.
(c) Science writing that begins in media res.
(d) Science writing that does not use chronological order.

5. In Chapter 3, "The Power of the Prologue," what does Foster give as the basic meaning of "preface," "prologue," and "foreward"?
(a) Ahead of.
(b) Leading.
(c) First word.
(d) In front.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, "The Structure of Nonfiction Information," what does Foster say is the purpose of the "four Ps?"

2. According to "The Building Blocks of Arguments," what is the implicit argument of most nonfiction writing?

3. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," which claim does Foster make about thesis statements?

4. In Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," Foster makes the point that during the Nassar scandal, the Lansing State Journal did what?

5. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," what does Foster call works that people write about their own experiences with illness and dying?

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