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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) Beside the first object.
(b) Under the cage.
(c) Draped over a chair.
(d) Lying on the floor.

2. How many specific facts are provided by King about the entire image in the second chapter?
(a) Five.
(b) Four items and their location/relation to one another.
(c) Only two: the object and a number on its back.
(d) An object, its color, and its number.

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

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

5. How does King obtain money from his classmates?
(a) He writes a novel based on one of Poe's stories and sells it at school.
(b) He writes term papers for them.
(c) He writes jokes and sells them.
(d) He writes clever short stories.

Short Answer Questions

1. .What is the first specific item King states his book on writing will NOT be about?

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

3. What is the name of the second chapter of this book?

4. What does the second chapter open with King presenting to the reader?

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

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