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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through C.V..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does King begin to submit stories to magazines?
(a) While in junior high school.
(b) While in college.
(c) While in elementary school.
(d) While in high school.

2. What is the first chapter, C.V., about?
(a) Stories related to how King became a horror novelist.
(b) Stories about King's early life.
(c) Stories from King's childhood related to how he became a writer.
(d) Stories about King's views on writing.

3. What kind of stories does King particularly enjoy?
(a) Humorous stories by Mark Twain.
(b) Horror stories by Edgar Allen Poe.
(c) Stories by O. Henry.
(d) Mystery stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.

4. What does the King brothers' newspaper contain?
(a) Local gossip and family news.
(b) Stories about family members.
(c) Stories told to King about his family.
(d) Family and neighborhood news.

5. In the chapter, C.V., King touches on the theme of the book. What is this theme?
(a) Writing as a career.
(b) Writing for money.
(c) Writing as life support.
(d) Writing as magic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does King meet while in college?

2. What happens to the person(s) on whom King bases Carrie while they were in high school?

3. The change that King made in his writing life after his wife's intervention is seen by King as a symbol. What does this symbol represent?

4. What happens with the electromagnet experiment?

5. On one of their expeditions, King and his brother meet an unexpected enemy. What is this enemy?

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