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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. Who does Chris call after leaving the decorating group?

2. What are Carrie's abilities like?

3. Where does Miss Desjardin take Carrie?

4. Where does Sue Snell go at the opening of this section?

5. What do the girls do when they see Carrie with blood running down her legs?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sue Snell say to Tommy about Carrie and the gym incident and how does she feel?

2. What does Sue decide will make things right with Carrie?

3. What did Carrie's father take to work with him and where is he?

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

5. What does Chris do when she leaves the prom decorating party?

6. What does Margret White tell Carrie about her menstrual cycle, and what does she do? How does Carrie respond?

7. What happens at school in gym class when Carrie is seventeen?

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

9. What happens in August, 1966, at the home of Margret White? Who does Margret live with? How does she treat that person?

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. Be sure to include specific examples to illustrate the theme you are discussing. How do specific characters help illustrate the theme? Would this novel be different without the theme? How? Is the theme one that could be considered universal? Why or why not :

1. Trace and analyze the theme of violence in CARRIE. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Trace and analyze the theme of abuse in CARRIE. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. Trace and analyze the theme of revenge in CARRIE. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Interesting characters contribute a great deal to the success of most novels. Discuss one of the following using specific examples from the text in your discussion:

1. Carrie is singly the most important and most visible character of all the characters. Discuss her most prominent character strengths and flaws and how they impact the other characters in the novel. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Define the term "character foil" and discuss which characters serve as a "foil" to Carrie's character. How do they do so? Why do they do so? How does having a foil to a character help define and make that character more complex? How does it do so in Carrie's case?

3. Discuss four secondary characters. What are their flaws and strengths? How do they contribute or detract from Carrie's efforts for a normal life? What is Carrie's opinion of each of the four characters? Does she like them? Tolerate them? Admire or despise them? Use specific examples from the text in your discussion.

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