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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 Carrie doing at the end of gym class that begins the plot of the story?

2. What does Carrie's mother do when she sees Carrie speaking to the neighbor teen?

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

4. How is Carrie treated at home?

5. When does Carrie's father die?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Carrie practice her ability?

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

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

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

5. What does Carrie do to a small boy while walking home and what does she discover about herself?

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

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

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

9. Why does Mr. Grayle tell Chris Hargensen's father she may not go to the prom and with what does Grayle threaten Chris' father?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Often small actions, illegal, immoral or even moral can have serious repercussions.

1. Discuss how small illegal and/or immoral actions lead to serious consequences in the novel. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Do you think after reading this book that schools should do more about peers bullying particular students who don't seem to fit into the social structure? Why or why not? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. Do you believe this book reflects "real" life in that sometimes a small action such as embarrassing a teenager or dropping pig's blood on two students, can lead to greater consequences? Discuss with examples.

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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