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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 think her date is doing?

2. What does Carrie do to Billy's car?

3. What does Carrie ask of her mother?

4. What is Billy beginning to feel about Chris?

5. What does Chris ask Billy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens with Sue and the investigating committee?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chris is angry at being barred from the prom. Carrie is angry because she feels so many of her peers make fun of her. Margret is angry because she didn't kill Carrie as a baby. Anger runs throughout this whole book.

1. Do you think the events would have occurred without anger? Why or why not? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. How do you think Carrie can go about "losing" her anger?

3. Is Carrie's anger justified? Understandable? What can she do to let go of the anger?

4. Can you use your advice about how Carrie can let go of her anger and apply it to any way your own anger is sparked? Why or why not?

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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