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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. What is the path of destruction that Carrie walks?

2. What does Carrie do when she sees people as she is walking?

3. What does Cora learn when she gets to the high school?

4. What does Carrie believe after being splattered?

5. What does Carrie think her date is doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Margret tell Carrie about her conception and birth?

2. What happens when Carrie tries on her dress for the prom?

3. What had Chris and Billy done before the prom begins?

4. What does Sheriff Doyle say about the night of the prom?

5. Why does Carrie go into a church? What does she do immediately after leaving the church?

6. What does Margret think she should have done with Carrie and what does she plan to do now?

7. How does Carrie feel while she is waiting for Tommy to pick her up for the prom? What does he tell her?

8. What did Cora find out at the school and what does she want to know?

9. What happens with Carrie immediately after the prank by Billy and Chris?

10. What does Carrie do to the gas stations she passes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Carrie has killed almost an entire town for revenge.

1. How would you define revenge? How often do you think people are motivated by the desire for revenge? What do you think is the effect of holding such a desire for a long time without fulfillment?

2. Explain why Chris wants revenge and on whom. Do you think she is justified in seeking revenge? Is the taking of revenge ever justified? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. Explain why Carrie wants revenge and on whom. Do you think she is justified in seeking revenge? Is the taking of revenge ever justified? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Interesting characters contribute a great deal to the success of most novels. Discuss one of the following using specific examples from the text in your discussion:

1. Carrie is singly the most important and most visible character of all the characters. Discuss her most prominent character strengths and flaws and how they impact the other characters in the novel. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Define the term "character foil" and discuss which characters serve as a "foil" to Carrie's character. How do they do so? Why do they do so? How does having a foil to a character help define and make that character more complex? How does it do so in Carrie's case?

3. Discuss four secondary characters. What are their flaws and strengths? How do they contribute or detract from Carrie's efforts for a normal life? What is Carrie's opinion of each of the four characters? Does she like them? Tolerate them? Admire or despise them? Use specific examples from the text in your discussion.

Essay Topic 3

In most fiction, readers would like all the loose ends to be neatly "tied up." Discuss the following:

1. Do you think CARRIE is successful as a horror novel? Why or why not.

2. What about this book would motivate you to read another of Stephen King's books? What would discourage you from doing so?

3. Were all the "loose ends" satisfactorily settled for you? Why or why not? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

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