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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 Sue Snell tell Sheriff Doyle?

2. What does Carrie think her date is doing?

3. What is the path of destruction that Carrie walks?

4. How does Billy think of Chris?

5. What is Billy beginning to feel about Chris?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What happens with Sue and the investigating committee?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The characters in CARRIE are a mixture of complex (or three dimensional) and flat (or stereotypes) Choose one of the following questions and write a well-developed, cohesive essay using examples from the text and your research or personal experience:

1. Write an in-depth character analysis of CARRIE. Include a physical description, personality traits, and what beliefs motivate her. Is this character round or flat? What do you like and dislike about this character? Why? Give specific examples.

2. Write an in-depth character analysis of Sue Snell. Include a physical description, personality traits, and what beliefs motivate him. Is this character round or flat? What do you like and dislike about this character? Why? Give specific examples.

3. Choose three other characters besides Carrie and Sue Snell and write about them in relationship to both Carrie and Sue Snell. Are they friendly or hostile to either main character? Explain with examples. What is their purpose(s) in the story?

Essay Topic 2

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.

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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