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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Toolbox.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can the book, On Writing, be described?
(a) Clever, formulistic, but inspiring.
(b) A masterpiece.
(c) Poignant, educated and inspiring.
(d) A poorly conceived hack job.

2. Of the two reasons King gives for why people write, which one does he support?
(a) Writing for money.
(b) Writing for fame.
(c) Writing as a hobby.
(d) Writing as a passion.

3. What happened when Carrie sells to a paperback publisher?
(a) The book sells for $400,000, of which King received one third.
(b) The paperback publisher rejects the initial version of the book and demanded revisions.
(c) The paperback publisher offers King an advance of $400,000.
(d) King receives $200,000 and his life changes forever.

4. Of the details King has supplied the reader regarding his image in the second chapter, what does King hope the reader will primarily focus on?
(a) The possibilities of significant other numbers.
(b) The number as an object of fate.
(c) The other details about the animal.
(d) On this number and what it might mean.

5. How does King's mother die?
(a) She dies of uterine cancer.
(b) She dies of cirrhosis.
(c) She dies of injuries received in a traffic accident.
(d) She dies from an overdose.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the third specific item King states his book on writing will NOT be?

2. The image in the second chapter is King's way of demonstrating to the readers his idea of _____.

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 does King's uncle use from the toolbox?

5. What is King's overall opinion on details in writing?

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