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

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

3. How did King describe the cloth's appearance in his image?
(a) He didn't.
(b) He talks about its smell.
(c) He describes its texture.
(d) He describes its color.

4. What does the second chapter open with King presenting to the reader?
(a) A piece of advice.
(b) A monologue.
(c) An image.
(d) An injunction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many specific facts are provided by King about the entire image in the second chapter?

2. When does King get the idea for Carrie?

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

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

5. King states that writing is a job that includes aspects that are ____.

Short Essay Questions

1. King opens the chapter, What Writing Is, with an image. What is the image and how is it described? In what ways is this image different from other images presented in books? What is King's motive in doing this? Do you think this is an effective way to allow the reader to see the scene? Why or why not?

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

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

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

5. King was a heavy drinker and addicted to cocaine. He believed that these two elements contributed to his creativity. In terms of the chapter, C.V., do you think his belief was justified? Why or why not?

6. When King asks the writer to accept 'the magic of writing, but to take it seriously', what is he saying?

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

8. King believed that writing is telepathy. What is telepathy in the context of this statement?

9. What relationship is there between writing as a career and writing as a passion? Explain in your own words.

10. Why does King write? Explain in your own words based on the chapters, C.V., and What Writing Is.

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