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

Program

Position
2 Why does Foster use the term structural (rather than narrative) design when discussing nonfiction?
Because not all nonfiction is narrative in nature

Because "narrative design" is an old and outdated term

Because nonfiction is the only type of literature that possesses clear structural patterns

Because nonfiction has features that are different and unique from other forms of writing
3 Which two books does Foster use to introduce his discussion of structural design?
Seabiscuit and The White Album

Seabiscuit and The Audacity of Hope

Seabiscuit and The Boys in the Boat

Seabiscuit and Hidden Figures
4 What qualities distinguish a feature story from a hard news story?
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

Features require consultation from subject matter experts

Features are typically longer and softer in terms of subject matter
5 Which of the following is NOT one of the three central terms Foster mentions related to argument?
Claims

Warrant

Merit

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

Prologue

Author's Note

Preface
7 Which explorer(s) is the focus of Stephen Ambrose's book Undaunted Courage?
Lewis and Clark

Vasco da Gama

Sir Edmund Hillary

Christopher Columbus
8 Which of the following is typically true of a foreword?
It is typically 2 pages or less in length

It is usually written at the same time as the main work

It is usually not written by the author of the main work

It is almost exclusively written by a scholar with expertise in the subject matter
9 From what language is "Appendix" etymologically derived?
Latin

Old French

High German

Greek
10 Before his 2018 book, Michael Pollan was best known for writing on what topic?
Food

Evolutionary Biology

The Watergate scandal

Military History
11 Lin Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton was inspired by a biography written by which author?
Margot Lee Shetterley

Ron Chernow

Daniel James Brown

Michael Pollan
12 Foster references an article written by Hannah Arendt, focusing on which poet?
William Butler Yeats

T.S. Eliot

Ezra Pound

W.H. Auden
13 Foster attributes the invention of "free indirect speech" to which author?
Gustave Flaubert

Virginia Woolf

Jane Austen

Victor Hugo
14 What was Foster's first job related to writing?
Writing book reviews for The New Yorker

Editing college admissions essays

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?
George Washington

Henry David Thoreau

Benjamin Disraeli

Cardinal Newman
16 Whom does Foster cite as the greatest living writer?
John McPhee

Jonathan Franzen

Stephen King

Cormac McCarthy
17 According to Foster, Malcolm Gladwell typically begins his book with what device?
A flashforward

A provocative statistic

A definition

An anecdote
18 News journalism is usually written at what reading level?
First-year college

A level that someone new to learning English can comprehend

3rd-5th grade

9th-11th grade
19 Which university experienced a scandal centering on their gymnastic team?
Duke University

Michigan State University

Howard University

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
20 The Boston Globe story Spotlight focused on what events?
Systematic abuse within the Indian Residential school system

Rising tuition costs and increasing student debt loads

Suppression of medical evidence by tobacco companies

Sexual abuse scandals within the Catholic Church
21 What does Foster cite as arguably the most important nonfiction book of the twentieth century?
Between the World and Me

In Cold Blood

All the President's Men

Silent Spring
22 Which of the following does Foster NOT list as one of the four key books of New Journalism?
The White Paper

Mailer's The Armies of the Night

Capote's In Cold Blood

Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels
23 Where did Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas get its start?
As an MFA thesis

As an essay in a collection of travelogues

As an entry in a contest

As a magazine assignment
24 Foster draws a stylistic parallel between Joan Didion and which other author?
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Balzac

Hemingway

Mark Twain
25 What subject is the focus of the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men?
the lives of Catholic saints

American vice-presidents

The 1939 Yankees team

Impoverished farmers

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