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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through What Writing Is.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the cloth mentioned in King's image located within the image?
(a) Under the cage.
(b) Draped over a chair.
(c) Lying on the floor.
(d) Beside the first object.

2. What happens to Carrie several months later after its initial sale?
(a) The book is published in Spanish.
(b) The book is made into a movie.
(c) The book sells its paperback rights to TNT for a television series.
(d) The publisher sells the paperback rights.

3. Where does King discover horror stories?
(a) At the local theater.
(b) At his aunt and uncle's house.
(c) In the school library.
(d) At the newsstand.

4. What happens with the electromagnet experiment?
(a) It darkens his entire apartment building.
(b) It is too big and blows out a neighborhood transformer.
(c) It burns up their house.
(d) It shocks Stephen and Dave King, and sends them to the hospital.

5. What does one of King's babysitters do to him?
(a) Tortures King with a belt.
(b) Mistreats him and complains to his mother about his behavior.
(c) Forces him to stay in his room all day.
(d) Feeds him too many eggs and then locks him in a closet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal appears in the image King describes in the second chapter?

2. To which substance is King first addicted as a young man?

3. In the chapter, C.V., King touches on the theme of the book. What is this theme?

4. What kind of a book is On Writing?

5. When does King get the idea for Carrie?

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