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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through On Living: A Postscript.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a major theme in the second chapter of King's book?
(a) The importance of studying grammar and vocabulary.
(b) Reasons or motivations for writing.
(c) The necessity of studying other authors.
(d) The writer's life.

2. How could the object King's uncle inherits be described?
(a) Large and open.
(b) Large and hard to carry around.
(c) Big but light.
(d) Small and light.

3. From King's statements, what element should be used to illustrate a character?
(a) Their typical, everyday dress.
(b) Their speech.
(c) Their mannerisms.
(d) Their thoughts.

4. In conclusion, what is the chapter, Toolbox, about?
(a) King's feelings about the writing world.
(b) King's effort to present the mechanics of writing to his readers.
(c) King's analogy on the art of writing.
(d) King's beliefs about how to become an excellent writer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the book King works on during his recovery period?

2. Why was the person who caused King's accident going into town?

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

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

5. What makes King's accident so tragic?

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