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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 9, "Living the News," what does Foster say is the main difference between New Journalism and immersive journalism?

2. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," what does Foster say the contemporary world lacks?

3. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," what does Foster say leads to better thinking?

4. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," what aspect of Renaissance scholarship does Foster say the essay rebels against?

5. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," what does Foster say that Wolff mostly wrote about before writing Fire and Fury?

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. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," what does Foster say is the difference between autobiography and memoir?

3. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," why does Foster say that Woodward and Bernstein do not belong in the category of New Journalism?

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," what does Foster say is problematic about the internet and web?

7. 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?

8. In "Interrogating the Text," where does Foster suggest that readers focus their interrogative effort, and why?

9. In Chapter 12, "That Is So Last Year," what difference does Foster explain between primary and secondary sources?

10. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," what characteristics does Foster say the thesis of a strong essay will have?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose a passage of one of Hunter S. Thompson's essays to analyze. Explain the techniques Thompson uses that are more commonly associated with fiction than with nonfiction, and explain the relationship between your observations and Foster's remarks about Thompson's writing in Chapter 9, "Living the News."

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," Foster makes a number of claims about the importance of newspapers. Do you agree, disagree, or agree with qualifications?

Essay Topic 3

Consider Foster's plea for critical thinking in Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources." He blames the presence of false information on the web on a lack of "gatekeepers" (248) and calls the lack of "quality control" on the web a "fatal flaw" (246). Think carefully about the following questions and then write an essay in which you give your opinions about media gatekeeping.

• Who has historically controlled media, and what has this control meant for those without a voice in traditional media?

• Have the masses of people historically been fully informed, critical thinkers?

• If there were "gatekeepers" ensuring the truth of everything published on the web, who would they be and how would this alter the function of the web in the average person's life?

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