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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice does King give on paragraphs?
(a) To pay attention to the length and number of paragraphs.
(b) King feels paragraphs should have a standard length of 8 to 10 lines.
(c) King wants writers to see their paragraphs as a graphic picture on a page.
(d) King believes paragraphs should not vary in length.

2. King's comparison of a handyman's toolbox with a writer's tool box is which figure of speech?
(a) Simile.
(b) Irony.
(c) Epigram.
(d) Metaphor.

3. What book does King recommend for grammar study?
(a) Betty Azar's Understanding and Using English Grammar.
(b) Any good high school grammar text.
(c) Prentice-Hall Handbook of Grammar.
(d) Strunk and White's Elements of Style.

4. If a reader does not see an image the same way as the writer, how has the image changed?
(a) The creative process changes the image to fit the story.
(b) As the reader reads about it, the details change.
(c) The image becomes more elaborated.
(d) The image doesn't change. It is the same image.

5. When does King begin to write stories?
(a) After he finishes school.
(b) When he is eight or nine.
(c) While he is in kindergarten.
(d) During his first year of school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does King remember about his childhood with his brother Dave?

2. According to King, grammar rules were _______________ .

3. According to King, what are two reasons to write?

4. Of the details King has supplied the reader regarding his image in the second chapter, what does King hope the reader will primarily focus on?

5. After Tabitha King's intervention in King's addictions, he makes some changes in his life. What change does he make in his writing life?

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