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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened when Carrie sells to a paperback publisher?
(a) The paperback publisher offers King an advance of $400,000.
(b) The book sells for $400,000, of which King received one third.
(c) King receives $200,000 and his life changes forever.
(d) The paperback publisher rejects the initial version of the book and demanded revisions.

2. What does King do while editor of his school paper?
(a) He copies other people's stories and publishes them.
(b) He creates one of the best versions of the paper ever.
(c) He writes a satirical version of the paper.
(d) He wins a national contest for the paper.

3. In what manner does King say writers must always consider writing?
(a) Morally.
(b) Realistically.
(c) Ideologically.
(d) Seriously.

4. 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 other details about the animal.
(b) The number as an object of fate.
(c) On this number and what it might mean.
(d) The possibilities of significant other numbers.

5. 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 published in Spanish.
(d) The book is made into a movie.

6. Why does King describe the image in the second chapter the way he does?
(a) To allow the reader to see the image in their own way.
(b) So that the reader creates an image different from the one King describes.
(c) King believes the reader will see the image as he does anyway.
(d) King wants to trick the reader into seeing a different image.

7. What does King define writing as?
(a) Visualization of scenes.
(b) The creation of images in a reader's head.
(c) Telepathy.
(d) A juxtaposition of words and images.

8. What does one of King's babysitters do to him?
(a) Feeds him too many eggs and then locks him in a closet.
(b) Mistreats him and complains to his mother about his behavior.
(c) Forces him to stay in his room all day.
(d) Tortures King with a belt.

9. Where does King discover horror stories?
(a) At the newsstand.
(b) In the school library.
(c) At the local theater.
(d) At his aunt and uncle's house.

10. What is King's overall opinion on details in writing?
(a) Supply all major details, but let the reader fill in the minor ones.
(b) Supply those the reader would never get on his own.
(c) Only supply the minimum.
(d) Supply key details and a couple of minor ones for color.

11. What happens with the electromagnet experiment?
(a) It darkens his entire apartment building.
(b) It burns up their house.
(c) It is too big and blows out a neighborhood transformer.
(d) It shocks Stephen and Dave King, and sends them to the hospital.

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

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

14. What is the first object described in the image in the second chapter?
(a) A bird.
(b) A cage.
(c) A snake.
(d) A head.

15. What is the unusual item attached to the animal?
(a) A letter.
(b) A number.
(c) An eye.
(d) A Chinese symbol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the person(s) on whom King bases Carrie while they were in high school?

2. Of the two reasons King gives for why people write, which one does he support?

3. What does the King brothers' newspaper contain?

4. What is the location of the first item mentioned in the image?

5. What does King remember about his childhood with his brother Dave?

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