Carrie Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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Carrie Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 129 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What list does Chris look at?

2. What does Margret think about sex?

3. What does Chris Hargensen tell her friend?

4. Why is Carrie alone at home?

5. What does Sue Snell want Tommy Ross to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Chris decide after seeing the list of names for possible king and queen of the prom?

2. How does Carrie respond to the girls in gym class?

3. What does Carrie do to a small boy while walking home and what does she discover about herself?

4. How does Sue feel about what she told Chris?

5. Why would Margret White yell at the neighbors and what did one do to taunt her?

6. What worries Sue when she is helping to decorate for the prom?

7. What does Carrie think about Tommy's request?

8. What is thought to be the connection between Carrie's ability and her menstrual cycle?

9. Why doesn't the commission know what Tommy's motives were the night of the prom?

10. What does Margret do when Carrie tells her she is going to the prom even though her mother had said no?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following to discuss:

1. Compare/contrast Chris Hagensen to Billy Nolan.

2. Compare/contrast the relationship of Chris and Billy to that of Sue and Tommy.

3. Compare/contrast the type of "community" in which Carrie lives to your own.

Essay Topic 2

The principal of the school and Miss Desjardin resigned, but it isn't explained if they stayed in the town of Chamberlain. It appears that both of those educators felt in retrospect that they should have done something, or perhaps have foreseen that something had the potential of happening that night.

1. Do you think these two characters could have prevented what happened the night of the prom? Why or why not? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. There is considerable debate in society whether schools are responsible for some of the moral upbringing of children. Some say educators are there to educate and parents are responsible for children's morals. Others say schools should play a role in teaching children right from wrong. Discuss the two sides of this issue and your own opinion,

3. People often feel responsible for events around them when they have little power to change situations. Explain why you think people tend to do that and why it might impact their lives negatively to do so.

Essay Topic 3

Change is inevitable, growth is optional. The change in the characters in this book are drastic from the status quo at the beginning of the book to the end.

1. What are some of the ways in which Carrie changed during the course of this book? Did she grow from the change? What did she learn from it? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. What are some of the changes that occurred in Sue Snell in the course of the story? How did she grow from the circumstances? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. Choose two characters in the book and compare and contrast the change in them through the course of the story and how they did or did not grow.

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