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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 advice does King give on paragraphs?
(a) King believes paragraphs should not vary in length.
(b) King wants writers to see their paragraphs as a graphic picture on a page.
(c) To pay attention to the length and number of paragraphs.
(d) King feels paragraphs should have a standard length of 8 to 10 lines.

2. When does King get the idea for Carrie?
(a) When his wife tells him a story she overheard.
(b) After taking a job at a high school.
(c) After watching a similar TV show.
(d) After reading about another girl.

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

4. Why is it important to King that a writer not be distracted while working?
(a) He feels that distractions cause a writer to lose the desire to work.
(b) He suggests that writers need solitude to clarify their thoughts.
(c) He believes that distractions make achieving a high number of words impossible.
(d) He thinks writers achieve their best work in solitude.

5. What reaction does King have to resuming work after his accident?
(a) He finds it therapeutic.
(b) He is unhappy that the words don't come as easily.
(c) He enjoys it, but he is not as obsessed as before.
(d) He hates it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does King discover horror stories?

2. Which genre does King feel Misery will belong to when he begins to write the story?

3. How did King describe the cloth's appearance in his image?

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

5. What does King believe about writers who are too busy to read?

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