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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Chapter 5, "It May Just Be Me, But..." through Chapter 8, "Bringing the News".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," Foster makes the point that during the Nassar scandal, the Lansing State Journal did what?
(a) Initially helped Michigan State University cover up the story but later pivoted to full coverage.
(b) Covered the scandal primarily as a sports story.
(c) Covered the breaking news and then allowed local magazines to take over coverage.
(d) Devoted its resources fully to the story and stuck with it over a long period of time.

2. According to "The Building Blocks of Arguments," what purpose do warrants serve?
(a) Warrants explain counterclaims.
(b) Warrants provide evidence.
(c) Warrants are like conclusions.
(d) Warrants link claims and grounds.

3. In Chapter 6, "Source Code," Foster talks about the change in value over time of a reporter's eyewitness testimony. What does Foster call this change in value?
(a) The price of detail.
(b) The transfer of source validity.
(c) The economy of information.
(d) The decline of presence.

4. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster uses as examples two books that have the same subject matter--Fear, and Fire and Fury. What subject matter do these books have in common?
(a) World War II.
(b) Watergate.
(c) The Trump White House.
(d) Wilderness exploration.

5. According to "The Building Blocks of Arguments," what is the implicit argument of most nonfiction writing?
(a) That the writer has the authority to write about the subject.
(b) That the subject matter is important enough to read about.
(c) That the writer's angle on the subject is the correct one.
(d) That the reader should change their beliefs or behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," what does Foster say the term "Fake News" originally referred to?

2. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," what is the purpose of Foster's discussion of structure in Coming into the Country?

3. In Chapter 4, "The Parts You Don't Read," what part of a text does Foster say is "under-read"? (39).

4. The section of this book called "The Books in the Book" is what part of the book?

5. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," what implicit assertion about online writing does Foster make?

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