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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 number appears in King's image?
(a) The number three.
(b) The number 24/7.
(c) It is not specified.
(d) The number seven.

2. How does King state he feels about writing for money?
(a) Writing for money is unnecessary; it will come.
(b) Writing is art, and as such, it may not pay.
(c) Everyone writes for money.
(d) One cannot write in anticipation of making money.

3. In the chapter, C.V., King makes a discovery about writing. What is this discovery?
(a) He discovers that writing is an obsession.
(b) He discovers that writing controls his life.
(c) He discovers that his writing is not very good.
(d) He discovers that writing was something he likes to do.

4. What is the second specific item King states his book on writing will NOT be about?
(a) Grammar.
(b) Vocabulary.
(c) Voice.
(d) Diction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. King's early addiction soon added another one. What is it?

2. What type of job does King believe writing to be?

3. Does King believe the reader see the image in the same way as the author?

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

5. What does King suggest that readers who do not take writing seriously do?

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