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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the location of the first item mentioned in the image?
(a) On the floor.
(b) In a chair.
(c) Over a counter.
(d) On a table.

3. What is one of King's last jobs before becoming a full-time writer?
(a) A worker in a laundry.
(b) A newspaper reporter.
(c) A high school English teacher.
(d) A night janitor for his wife's office.

4. What happened when Carrie sells to a paperback publisher?
(a) The book sells for $400,000, of which King received one third.
(b) The paperback publisher offers King an advance of $400,000.
(c) King receives $200,000 and his life changes forever.
(d) The paperback publisher rejects the initial version of the book and demanded revisions.

5. The image in the second chapter is King's way of demonstrating to the readers his idea of _____.
(a) The importance of the reader's creativity.
(b) The use of description to fully set up a scene.
(c) What writing is.
(d) How to entice a reader to read more.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a writer sees an image in his/her head and writes it down, what is he accomplishing in regards to the reader?

2. When does King begin to submit stories to magazines?

3. Why does King throw the story Carrie in the trash can?

4. Why does King miss his first year of school?

5. When does King begin to write stories?

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