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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. The image in the second chapter is King's way of demonstrating to the readers his idea of _____.
(a) The use of description to fully set up a scene.
(b) What writing is.
(c) The importance of the reader's creativity.
(d) How to entice a reader to read more.

2. 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.

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

4. King's early addiction soon added another one. What is it?
(a) Heroin.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Over the counter pain-killers.
(d) Cocaine.

5. What kind of stories does King particularly enjoy?
(a) Humorous stories by Mark Twain.
(b) Stories by O. Henry.
(c) Mystery stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.
(d) Horror stories by Edgar Allen Poe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the chapter, C.V., King makes a discovery about writing. What is this discovery?

3. The change that King made in his writing life after his wife's intervention is seen by King as a symbol. What does this symbol represent?

4. What is one reason for reading the book, On Writing?

5. How does King's mother die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did King begin his career as a writer?

4. Based on the chapters, C.V., and What Writing Is, what ideas justify King's statement that writing is a serious job?

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

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

7. In what way is the book, On Writing, to be different from King's usual work?

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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