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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of the details King has supplied the reader regarding his image in the second chapter, what does King hope the reader will primarily focus on?
(a) The other details about the animal.
(b) The possibilities of significant other numbers.
(c) The number as an object of fate.
(d) On this number and what it might mean.

2. What is the second specific item King states his book on writing will NOT be about?
(a) Vocabulary.
(b) Voice.
(c) Diction.
(d) Grammar.

3. King's early addiction soon added another one. What is it?
(a) Cocaine.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Heroin.
(d) Over the counter pain-killers.

4. What happens to Carrie when King sends it off to the publisher?
(a) The publisher sells it for $2500.
(b) King receives a telegram saying the book needed revisions.
(c) King receives a check for $250.
(d) It sells, and he receives an advance of $2500.

5. What does King define writing as?
(a) The creation of images in a reader's head.
(b) A juxtaposition of words and images.
(c) Telepathy.
(d) Visualization of scenes.

6. Why does King throw the story Carrie in the trash can?
(a) Because he doesn't like the main character Carrie.
(b) Because his wife hates the story.
(c) Because he feels he doesn't know enough about the events that went on in a girl's locker room.
(d) Because he is too busy to continue.

7. What does King suggest that readers who do not take writing seriously do?
(a) Ignore his advice completely.
(b) Read the book, but ignore the advice that conflicts with the reader's beliefs.
(c) Stop reading the book.
(d) Study the book more carefully.

8. In what manner does King say writers must always consider writing?
(a) Morally.
(b) Realistically.
(c) Seriously.
(d) Ideologically.

9. Why does it prove valuable to King to work for a local newspaper?
(a) Because the job with the paper earns King a lot of money.
(b) Because the editor keeps him so busy he didn't have time to get into trouble.
(c) Because the editor teaches King how to edit his work.
(d) Because he wins a national sports writing contest while there.

10. What is the location of the first item mentioned in the image?
(a) On a table.
(b) Over a counter.
(c) On the floor.
(d) In a chair.

11. How does King describe the image discussed in chapter two?
(a) With certain key details.
(b) Without any details.
(c) In great detail.
(d) With as little detail as possible.

12. How did King describe the cloth's appearance in his image?
(a) He talks about its smell.
(b) He didn't.
(c) He describes its color.
(d) He describes its texture.

13. When does King begin to write stories?
(a) During his first year of school.
(b) When he is eight or nine.
(c) After he finishes school.
(d) While he is in kindergarten.

14. 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?
(a) A change in the meaning of his writing.
(b) A change in his writing style.
(c) A change in the priorities of his life.
(d) A change to a deeper kind of symbolism in his writing.

15. In the chapter, C.V., King makes a discovery about writing. What is this discovery?
(a) He discovers that writing was something he likes to do.
(b) He discovers that his writing is not very good.
(c) He discovers that writing is an obsession.
(d) He discovers that writing controls his life.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Tabitha King's intervention in King's addictions, he makes some changes in his life. What change does he make in his writing life?

2. What kind of writing book does King say that he will be not be writing?

3. What is the first thing King requests in the second chapter that his readers accept about writing?

4. What happened when Carrie sells to a paperback publisher?

5. Who is the character Carrie based on?

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