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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 14, "The Universe of Ideas/Ideas of the Universe," what are two reasons Foster points to for disbelief in science?
2. In Chapter 14, "The Universe of Ideas/Ideas of the Universe," what does Foster seem to admire most about Neil deGrasse Tyson's writing?
3. In "Interrogating the Text," Foster says that source material should be "apt." He means that source material should be what?
4. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," what does Foster say that Wolff mostly wrote about before writing Fire and Fury?
5. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," Foster discusses the use of parallelism. He is discussing what technique?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. In Chapter 12, "That Is So Last Year," what difference does Foster explain between primary and secondary sources?
3. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," what does Foster say is problematic about the internet and web?
4. Explain why, in Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," Foster says that the narrators of nonfiction can be just as unreliable as the narrators of fiction.
5. 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?
6. 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?
7. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," why does Foster say that the process newspapers follow to assure balanced treatment in opinion pieces creates a false dichotomy?
8. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," what does Foster propose as a solution to inaccuracies on the web?
9. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," what does Foster list as the three criteria of Ezra Pound's criticism?
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
In Chapter 4, "The Parts You Don't Read," Foster says that titles are important guideposts to meaning. Evaluate the effectiveness of the chapter titles that Foster has chosen for this book.
Essay Topic 2
On page 28 of Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," Foster writes the following paragraph:
"That's easy: time. The thing of which there is never enough. That heals all wounds or possibly wounds all heels."
Analyze the effectiveness of this paragraph. What rhetorical strategies are at work here? What do you believe to be its purpose? Does it accomplish its purpose?
Essay Topic 3
Choose a piece of nonfiction--a book or longform article--and write a foreward for the work. Your foreward should offer context and key ideas that will guide readers more successfully through the work. Cite in MLA format any sources you use in creating your foreward.
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