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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 are Carrie's abilities like?

3. For what is Chris angry at Sue?

4. What do the girls do when they see Carrie with blood running down her legs?

5. What else disconcerts Mr. Morton?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is thought to be the connection between Carrie's ability and her menstrual cycle?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Carrie is written with an epistolary structure.

1. After research, explain, with examples what is meant by the above statement.

2. How do you think the epistolary structure affected the flow, the tone and the plot structure of CARRIE? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. How do you think this story would have changed if it had been written in a non-epistolary way in which the events take place in a chronological, story form? Do you think this would improve or detract from the book? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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