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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 try on while her mother watches?

2. What does Carrie think her date is doing?

3. What is Billy beginning to feel about Chris?

4. How does Carrie begin killing people in the building?

5. Who does Billy decide must pull the string to dump the pig's blood?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Billy decide while waiting for the prom queen and king to be announced?

2. What happens with Sue and the investigating committee?

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

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

5. What does Margret think she should have done with Carrie and what does she plan to do now?

6. What happens when Carrie tries on her dress for the prom?

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

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

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

10. What occurs between Sue and Carrie as Carrie is dying?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One of the themes in this novel is about justice. Discuss the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of justice throughout the novel. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Carrie thinks she is obtaining justice by killing off the students at the prom. Was she wrong or correct? Why or why not? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. By the end of the novel, has justice been meted out to the guilty parties? Why or why not. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

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

This novel belongs to the general literary category of fiction and the genre of horror fiction, although it has characteristics of other genres also. Discuss the following:

1. Define the term genre. Give examples of at least five types of genre and why they belong to their specific genre.

2. Why do you think books are categorized by genre? What are the advantages? The disadvantages?

3. To what other genres could this book possibly belong? Why? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

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