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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. Who goes with Billy?

2. What else disconcerts Mr. Morton?

3. What does Carrie ask a teenage neighbor about when Carrie is younger?

4. What did Carrie's father carry to work every day?

5. Why is Carrie alone at home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following to discuss. Be sure to include specific examples to illustrate the theme you are discussing. How do specific characters help illustrate the theme? Would this novel be different without the theme? How? Is the theme one that could be considered universal? Why or why not :

1. Trace and analyze the theme of violence in CARRIE. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Trace and analyze the theme of abuse in CARRIE. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. Trace and analyze the theme of revenge in CARRIE. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Change is inevitable, growth is optional. The change in the characters in this book are drastic from the status quo at the beginning of the book to the end.

1. What are some of the ways in which Carrie changed during the course of this book? Did she grow from the change? What did she learn from it? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. What are some of the changes that occurred in Sue Snell in the course of the story? How did she grow from the circumstances? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. Choose two characters in the book and compare and contrast the change in them through the course of the story and how they did or did not grow.

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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