How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor Quizzes

How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor Quiz 1

1 Which of the following is NOT one of the 4 Ps mentioned by Foster?
Promise

Problem

Position

Program
2 Why does Foster use the term structural (rather than narrative) design when discussing nonfiction?
Because nonfiction is the only type of literature that possesses clear structural patterns

Because "narrative design" is an old and outdated term

Because nonfiction has features that are different and unique from other forms of writing

Because not all nonfiction is narrative in nature
3 Which two books does Foster use to introduce his discussion of structural design?
Seabiscuit and The Boys in the Boat

Seabiscuit and The White Album

Seabiscuit and Hidden Figures

Seabiscuit and The Audacity of Hope
4 What qualities distinguish a feature story from a hard news story?
Features are typically longer and softer in terms of subject matter

Features require consultation from subject matter experts

Features can only be written by a journalist with specific credentials

Features are typically shorter and involve a topic being researched over a long period of time
5 Which of the following is NOT one of the three central terms Foster mentions related to argument?
Warrant

Merit

Claims

Ground
6 In A Higher Loyalty, what does James Comey title his introductory material?
Prologue

Author's Note

Preface

Envoi
7 Which explorer(s) is the focus of Stephen Ambrose's book Undaunted Courage?
Sir Edmund Hillary

Christopher Columbus

Vasco da Gama

Lewis and Clark
8 Which of the following is typically true of a foreword?
It is usually written at the same time as the main work

It is almost exclusively written by a scholar with expertise in the subject matter

It is typically 2 pages or less in length

It is usually not written by the author of the main work
9 From what language is "Appendix" etymologically derived?
Old French

High German

Greek

Latin
10 Before his 2018 book, Michael Pollan was best known for writing on what topic?
The Watergate scandal

Food

Evolutionary Biology

Military History
11 Lin Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton was inspired by a biography written by which author?
Daniel James Brown

Michael Pollan

Margot Lee Shetterley

Ron Chernow
12 Foster references an article written by Hannah Arendt, focusing on which poet?
T.S. Eliot

W.H. Auden

Ezra Pound

William Butler Yeats
13 Foster attributes the invention of "free indirect speech" to which author?
Victor Hugo

Virginia Woolf

Jane Austen

Gustave Flaubert
14 What was Foster's first job related to writing?
Editing college admissions essays

Writing book reviews for The New Yorker

Covering high school sports for a local newspaper

Writing for the Yale Law Review
15 To whom does Mark Twain attribute the quotation about lies, damned lies, and statistics?
Benjamin Disraeli

George Washington

Henry David Thoreau

Cardinal Newman
16 Whom does Foster cite as the greatest living writer?
Stephen King

Cormac McCarthy

John McPhee

Jonathan Franzen
17 According to Foster, Malcolm Gladwell typically begins his book with what device?
A provocative statistic

A definition

An anecdote

A flashforward
18 News journalism is usually written at what reading level?
9th-11th grade

3rd-5th grade

A level that someone new to learning English can comprehend

First-year college
19 Which university experienced a scandal centering on their gymnastic team?
Duke University

Howard University

Michigan State University

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
20 The Boston Globe story Spotlight focused on what events?
Suppression of medical evidence by tobacco companies

Rising tuition costs and increasing student debt loads

Sexual abuse scandals within the Catholic Church

Systematic abuse within the Indian Residential school system
21 What does Foster cite as arguably the most important nonfiction book of the twentieth century?
In Cold Blood

All the President's Men

Between the World and Me

Silent Spring
22 Which of the following does Foster NOT list as one of the four key books of New Journalism?
Capote's In Cold Blood

Mailer's The Armies of the Night

Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels

The White Paper
23 Where did Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas get its start?
As an MFA thesis

As a magazine assignment

As an essay in a collection of travelogues

As an entry in a contest
24 Foster draws a stylistic parallel between Joan Didion and which other author?
Balzac

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mark Twain

Hemingway
25 What subject is the focus of the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men?
American vice-presidents

The 1939 Yankees team

Impoverished farmers

the lives of Catholic saints

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