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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through What Writing Is.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the chapter, C.V., King makes a discovery about writing. What is this discovery?
(a) He discovers that writing is an obsession.
(b) He discovers that writing was something he likes to do.
(c) He discovers that his writing is not very good.
(d) He discovers that writing controls his life.

2. 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) On this number and what it might mean.
(b) The number as an object of fate.
(c) The other details about the animal.
(d) The possibilities of significant other numbers.

3. When does King begin to submit stories to magazines?
(a) While in elementary school.
(b) While in junior high school.
(c) While in college.
(d) While in high school.

4. What is the first chapter, C.V., about?
(a) Stories related to how King became a horror novelist.
(b) Stories about King's views on writing.
(c) Stories from King's childhood related to how he became a writer.
(d) Stories about King's early life.

5. According to King, what is the second condition that, if readers cannot accept, should be a reason to stop reading his book?
(a) That fame and fortune are fleeting.
(b) That writing will probably not make a lot of money for the reader.
(c) That the writing is drudgery.
(d) That writing is a serious job with inexplicable aspects.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the cloth mentioned in King's image located within the image?

2. What is the name of the second chapter of this book?

3. What does the second chapter open with King presenting to the reader?

4. Why does King miss his first year of school?

5. What is the first thing King requests in the second chapter that his readers accept about writing?

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