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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. Where does Carrie go when Tommy is killed?

2. What stops Carrie from running home to her mother?

3. What does Carrie do at gas stations that she passes?

4. What does Carrie believe after being splattered?

5. What does Margret think is wrong with her a few weeks after having sex?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Carrie do after she runs out of the prom?

3. What does Carrie do to the building where the prom is being held?

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

5. How does Carrie feel while she is waiting for Tommy to pick her up for the prom? What does he tell her?

6. What is Margret doing while Carrie is at the prom?

7. What happens with Carrie immediately after the prank by Billy and Chris?

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

9. What do Billy and Chris do when the town is on fire and what happens when they do it?

10. What had Chris and Billy done before the prom begins?

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

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 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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