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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first chapter, C.V., about?
(a) Stories about King's early life.
(b) Stories from King's childhood related to how he became a writer.
(c) Stories about King's views on writing.
(d) Stories related to how King became a horror novelist.

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

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

4. How many specific facts are provided by King about the entire image in the second chapter?
(a) Four items and their location/relation to one another.
(b) An object, its color, and its number.
(c) Five.
(d) Only two: the object and a number on its back.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the cloth mentioned in King's image located within the image?

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

3. What happened when Carrie sells to a paperback publisher?

4. According to King, what is the second condition that, if readers cannot accept, should be a reason to stop reading his book?

5. What is King's overall opinion on writing as a profession?

Short Essay Questions

1. What inferences can you make from King's statement that writing is magic? Explain in your own words.

2. After Tabitha King's intervention in her husband's addictions, King insisted on moving his desk. How was this symbolically important to him?

3. Why does King want his readers to put his book down if they are unable to accept that writing is magic?

4. What are some of the aspects of writing that King is not going to emphasize in the chapter, What Writing Is?

5. What are some of the things King remembers from his childhood? How might they have affected his writing?

6. In a short paper, summarize the main points of King's life as an author.

7. What conclusions can you draw from King's comparison of writing as a career versus writing as a passion? Explain in your own words.

8. Can you explain how King created the character of Carrie and why he disliked her so?

9. In what way is the chapter, What Writing Is, different from the usual book on writing?

10. How did King learn to edit his work? Why was this important to the young writer?

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