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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. Where is Sheriff Doyle when everything starts with Carrie?
2. What does Carrie do at gas stations that she passes?
3. What happens to Chris and Billy?
4. What does Margret do when Carrie says that about every woman?
5. What does Carrie believe after being splattered?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Carrie go into a church? What does she do immediately after leaving the church?
2. What does Margret tell Carrie about her conception and birth?
3. Why does Carrie return to the prom?
4. What does Margret think she should have done with Carrie and what does she plan to do now?
5. What does Carrie do to the gas stations she passes?
6. What does Carrie admit to her mother and what happens with the two of them?
7. What had Chris and Billy done before the prom begins?
8. What occurs between Sue and Carrie as Carrie is dying?
9. What is Margret doing while Carrie is at the prom?
10. How does Carrie feel while she is waiting for Tommy to pick her up for the prom? What does he tell her?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Chris is angry at being barred from the prom. Carrie is angry because she feels so many of her peers make fun of her. Margret is angry because she didn't kill Carrie as a baby. Anger runs throughout this whole book.
1. Do you think the events would have occurred without anger? Why or why not? Use examples from the book to support your answer.
2. How do you think Carrie can go about "losing" her anger?
3. Is Carrie's anger justified? Understandable? What can she do to let go of the anger?
4. Can you use your advice about how Carrie can let go of her anger and apply it to any way your own anger is sparked? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
This novel belongs to the general literary category of fiction and the genre of horror fiction, although it has characteristics of other genres also. Discuss the following:
1. Define the term genre. Give examples of at least five types of genre and why they belong to their specific genre.
2. Why do you think books are categorized by genre? What are the advantages? The disadvantages?
3. To what other genres could this book possibly belong? Why? Use examples from the book to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Carrie is so quick to assume that people are out to get her that she never realizes that the pig blood at the prom wasn't necessarily meant for her. Carrie has been so abused by the people that should have cared for her, or at least looked out for her, that she can't comprehend how to properly act with people in many respects.
1. Do you think Carrie's assumption about the blood was logical? Why or why not? Use examples from the book to support your answer.
2. Given Carrie's home situation explain why you think she had such a difficult time at school with the other students. Use examples from the book to support your answer.
3. How much of Carrie's paranoia do you think was the result of her mother's influence and how much did she acquire at school? Use examples from the book to support your answer.
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