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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does King's mother die?
(a) She dies of uterine cancer.
(b) She dies of cirrhosis.
(c) She dies from an overdose.
(d) She dies of injuries received in a traffic accident.

2. What happens to Carrie several months later after its initial sale?
(a) The publisher sells the paperback rights.
(b) The book is made into a movie.
(c) The book sells its paperback rights to TNT for a television series.
(d) The book is published in Spanish.

3. What does the King brothers' newspaper contain?
(a) Local gossip and family news.
(b) Stories told to King about his family.
(c) Stories about family members.
(d) Family and neighborhood news.

4. In the chapter, C.V., King touches on the theme of the book. What is this theme?
(a) Writing for money.
(b) Writing as life support.
(c) Writing as magic.
(d) Writing as a career.

5. What animal appears in the image King describes in the second chapter?
(a) A cat.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A turtle.
(d) A parakeet.

6. What is the name of the second chapter of this book?
(a) Writing My Way.
(b) On Writing.
(c) What Writing Is.
(d) On Living.

7. What is the third specific item King states his book on writing will NOT be?
(a) A book on subjectivity.
(b) A book on horror.
(c) An instruction handbook.
(d) A book on realism.

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

9. 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 possibilities of significant other numbers.
(c) On this number and what it might mean.
(d) The number as an object of fate.

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

11. According to King, who determines what the image in the second chapter looks like?
(a) The writer.
(b) No one.
(c) The translator.
(d) The reader.

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

13. If a reader does not see an image the same way as the writer, how has the image changed?
(a) The creative process changes the image to fit the story.
(b) The image doesn't change. It is the same image.
(c) As the reader reads about it, the details change.
(d) The image becomes more elaborated.

14. When a writer sees an image in his/her head and writes it down, what is he accomplishing in regards to the reader?
(a) Enticing the reader to stay alert.
(b) Demonstrating his prowess as an author who should be read.
(c) Suggesting how to understand the author's thoughts.
(d) Giving the image to the reader.

15. How does King state he feels about writing for money?
(a) Writing is art, and as such, it may not pay.
(b) Writing for money is unnecessary; it will come.
(c) Everyone writes for money.
(d) One cannot write in anticipation of making money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens with the electromagnet experiment?

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

3. .What is the first specific item King states his book on writing will NOT be about?

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

5. What does King define writing as?

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