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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 Margret hold while sitting in the living room?

2. Who does Billy want crowned?

3. What does Sue Snell tell Sheriff Doyle?

4. What do some girls ask Carrie about her dress?

5. What does Carrie do when people around her start burning?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Carrie feel about her name being on the ballot and what happens during the vote for prom court?

2. What does Carrie do to the gas stations she passes?

3. What does Cora Simard tell the commission?

4. How did Billy Nolan use his friends with his plan for prom night?

5. What did Cora find out at the school and what does she want to know?

6. What does Sheriff Doyle say about the night of the prom?

7. Why does Carrie return to the prom?

8. Why does Carrie go into a church? What does she do immediately after leaving the church?

9. What happens when Tommy and Carrie are standing on stage?

10. What does Carrie admit to her mother and what happens with the two of them?

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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