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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 Billy do?

2. What else disconcerts Mr. Morton?

3. What happens when Carrie starts to cry?

4. What is the real reason Sue accepted her punishment?

5. From where does the prayer come?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sue Snell say to Tommy about Carrie and the gym incident and how does she feel?

2. What does Billy Nolan do to prepare for prom night?

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

4. What worries Sue when she is helping to decorate for the prom?

5. What does Sue decide will make things right with Carrie?

6. What does Sue Snell realize when the gym teacher comes in? What does the teacher do?

7. How does Carrie respond to the girls in gym class?

8. What does Margret do when Carrie tells her she is going to the prom even though her mother had said no?

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

10. What does Sue think is Chris' main goal about the prom?

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

Most of the people involved with prom realize that Chris Hargensen is most likely going to try and do something at prom to ruin the event for everyone else, but no one says anything to her.

1. Discuss, in depth, the dynamics of a school's social atmosphere that might keep anyone from talking to Chris about her plans for the prom. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Discuss, in depth, who is more responsible for what happened in Chamberlain, Chris Hargensen or Carrie. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. Although Chris wants to specifically embarrass Carrie, Billy doesn't care who is standing under the buckets. Explain what you think motivates someone like Billy to do what he did. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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