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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Chapter 16, "Social (Media) Disease" through "Conclusion".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," what reason does Foster give for journalists generally being proved correct despite public mistrust?
(a) Strategy.
(b) Professionalism.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Stubbornness.

2. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," what document does Foster call the "ultimate political expression of [the] Enlightenment insistence on the individual" (146)?
(a) Apologia Pro Vita Sua.
(b) The Declaration of Independence.
(c) Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
(d) A Room of One's Own.

3. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," Foster says that the chief aim of Fire and Fury is to demonstrate what?
(a) That Trump was a petty tyrant.
(b) That the Trump White House was dysfunctional at all levels.
(c) That Trump was unable to control his staff.
(d) That Trump's White House was not as transparent as publicly claimed.

4. Whom does Foster name, in Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," as the "inheritors" (164) of the legacy of Apologia Pro Vita Sua?
(a) Journalists and novelists.
(b) Philosophers and scholars.
(c) Politicians and musicians.
(d) Artists and professors.

5. In Chapter 17, "The Criminal Element," what does Foster suggest that the ordinary reader do to guard against bad data?
(a) Assume that all data is false.
(b) Read and analyze the study that the data comes from.
(c) Wait for corroboration before believing new data.
(d) Assume that only data from expert sources is reliable.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," which author does Foster say is at the opposite "pole" of New Journalism from Hunter S. Thompson?

2. In Chapter 17, "The Criminal Element," Foster refers to a work as a "pastiche" (281). What is he saying about this text?

3. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," what does Foster call the "most famous" African American autobiography (171)?

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?

5. Using an argument like "Democrats just want to take your guns" in an address to a gun rights organization in a heavily Republican area would be an example of which flaw in argumentation?

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