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

2. How does King describe the image discussed in chapter two?
(a) With certain key details.
(b) With as little detail as possible.
(c) In great detail.
(d) Without any details.

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

4. 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 book is published in Spanish.
(c) The book is made into a movie.
(d) The publisher sells the paperback rights.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did King describe the cloth's appearance in his image?

2. How does King obtain money from his classmates?

3. Whom does King meet while in college?

4. What does one of King's babysitters do to him?

5. How does his writing help King financially?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what ways is the rabbit on the table of symbol of King's belief in magic and telepathy? Explain in your own words.

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

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

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

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

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

8. As a child, King had many chronic ear and throat infections. How might these illnesses lead King to writing?

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

10. What facts or ideas show the beginnings of King's career as a master of horror?

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