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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through What Writing Is.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where on the animal is something unusual attached?
(a) On its foot.
(b) On a collar around its neck.
(c) On its side.
(d) On its back.

2. What happens with the electromagnet experiment?
(a) It is too big and blows out a neighborhood transformer.
(b) It shocks Stephen and Dave King, and sends them to the hospital.
(c) It darkens his entire apartment building.
(d) It burns up their house.

3. What kind of stories does King particularly enjoy?
(a) Horror stories by Edgar Allen Poe.
(b) Humorous stories by Mark Twain.
(c) Mystery stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.
(d) Stories by O. Henry.

4. What does King do while editor of his school paper?
(a) He creates one of the best versions of the paper ever.
(b) He writes a satirical version of the paper.
(c) He wins a national contest for the paper.
(d) He copies other people's stories and publishes them.

5. What happens to Carrie several months later after its initial sale?
(a) The book is made into a movie.
(b) The book is published in Spanish.
(c) The book sells its paperback rights to TNT for a television series.
(d) The publisher sells the paperback rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. The image in the second chapter is King's way of demonstrating to the readers his idea of _____.

2. When a writer sees an image in his/her head and writes it down, what is he accomplishing in regards to the reader?

3. The change that King made in his writing life after his wife's intervention is seen by King as a symbol. What does this symbol represent?

4. What type of job does King believe writing to be?

5. What is the unusual item attached to the animal?

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