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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 comes in and whispers to someone on the decorating committee?

2. What prayer does Margret recite?

3. What does Carrie do when she gets mad at her mother?

4. Why is Mr. Morton shocked?

5. What does Carrie's mother think of Carrie?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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 does Billy Nolan do to prepare for prom night?

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

6. How does Carrie practice her ability?

7. Where does the gym teacher take Carrie and what is done with her that day?

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

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 does Sue decide will make things right with Carrie?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Carrie is so quick to assume that people are out to get her that she never realizes that the pig blood at the prom wasn't necessarily meant for her. Carrie has been so abused by the people that should have cared for her, or at least looked out for her, that she can't comprehend how to properly act with people in many respects.

1. Do you think Carrie's assumption about the blood was logical? Why or why not? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Given Carrie's home situation explain why you think she had such a difficult time at school with the other students. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. How much of Carrie's paranoia do you think was the result of her mother's influence and how much did she acquire at school? 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

Discuss the following:

1. Compare and contrast the characters of Chris Hargensen and Sue Snell. How are they the same? How are they different? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. What do you think would have happened if these two characters, Chris Hargensen and Sue Snell never existed in the story? Use events from the book where the direct influence of Chris Hargensen and Sue Snell have an impact on others.

3. Who is the better person, Chris Hargensen or Sue? Why? Cite several examples from the book to support your case.

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