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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is King's most important injunction to writers?
(a) Writers must work every day.
(b) Writers should be honest.
(c) Writers must be original.
(d) Writers need to have their own space.

2. Whom does King meet while in college?
(a) His writing mentor.
(b) His future publisher.
(c) His future agent.
(d) His future wife.

3. Of the details King has supplied the reader regarding his image in the second chapter, what does King hope the reader will primarily focus on?
(a) The number as an object of fate.
(b) The possibilities of significant other numbers.
(c) The other details about the animal.
(d) On this number and what it might mean.

4. Why does King's uncle carry the whole toolbox with him?
(a) Because it is a habit.
(b) Because he says a person could never be sure what tools he would need.
(c) Because lifting it gives him a workout.
(d) Because he can't go back home between jobs.

5. How does his writing help King financially?
(a) King's stories never made much, but every little bit helped.
(b) King's writing was a steady, but small source of income.
(c) King's writing didn't really help financially.
(d) Often his stories would sell when they were in serious financial trouble.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does King say about adverbs?

2. What is King's overall opinion on details in writing?

3. What action does King believe a writer should take with respect to grammar?

4. The image in the second chapter is King's way of demonstrating to the readers his idea of _____.

5. To which substance is King first addicted as a young man?

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