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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 does Carrie say she does not like?

2. What does Miss Desjardin do to the girls who haze Carrie?

3. What does a little boy on a bike call Carrie as she is walking home?

4. Why does Sue cry?

5. What are Sue Snell and other students doing on Wednesday afternoon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't the commission know what Tommy's motives were the night of the prom?

2. What happens in August, 1966, at the home of Margret White? Who does Margret live with? How does she treat that person?

3. Where does Sue Snell run into Chris Hargensen and what happens during their encounter?

4. What does Margret White tell Carrie about her menstrual cycle, and what does she do? How does Carrie respond?

5. What did Carrie's father take to work with him and where is he?

6. What does Carrie think about Tommy's request?

7. How does Sue feel about what she told Chris?

8. Why would Margret White yell at the neighbors and what did one do to taunt her?

9. What happens at school in gym class when Carrie is seventeen?

10. What does Chris do when she leaves the prom decorating party?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Often, authors will write about "what they know," and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:

1. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Stephen King.

2. What in King's background may have helped King in writing CARRIE? What may have influenced the way he depicts various characters and scenes?

3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples.

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

Choose one of the following to discuss:

1. Compare/contrast Chris Hagensen to Billy Nolan.

2. Compare/contrast the relationship of Chris and Billy to that of Sue and Tommy.

3. Compare/contrast the type of "community" in which Carrie lives to your own.

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