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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 when King sends it off to the publisher?
(a) King receives a telegram saying the book needed revisions.
(b) King receives a check for $250.
(c) The publisher sells it for $2500.
(d) It sells, and he receives an advance of $2500.

2. Why does King throw the story Carrie in the trash can?
(a) Because he doesn't like the main character Carrie.
(b) Because he is too busy to continue.
(c) Because his wife hates the story.
(d) Because he feels he doesn't know enough about the events that went on in a girl's locker room.

3. How did King describe the cloth's appearance in his image?
(a) He talks about its smell.
(b) He didn't.
(c) He describes its color.
(d) He describes its texture.

4. Does King believe the reader see the image in the same way as the author?
(a) Yes, if the reader reads carefully.
(b) If the writer describes it well, he will.
(c) Yes, he does.
(d) No, not always.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first chapter, C.V., about?

2. What is a major theme in the second chapter of King's book?

3. How does King's mother die?

4. If a reader does not see an image the same way as the writer, how has the image changed?

5. When King's principal hears about King's episode with the newspaper, what does he suggest?

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