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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where on the animal is something unusual attached?
(a) On a collar around its neck.
(b) On its foot.
(c) On its back.
(d) On its side.

2. What happens with the electromagnet experiment?
(a) It burns up their house.
(b) It is too big and blows out a neighborhood transformer.
(c) It darkens his entire apartment building.
(d) It shocks Stephen and Dave King, and sends them to the hospital.

3. On one of their expeditions, King and his brother meet an unexpected enemy. What is this enemy?
(a) A bear.
(b) Poison ivy.
(c) A black and white skunk.
(d) A snake.

4. What happens to Carrie when King sends it off to the publisher?
(a) King receives a check for $250.
(b) King receives a telegram saying the book needed revisions.
(c) The publisher sells it for $2500.
(d) It sells, and he receives an advance of $2500.

5. When does King begin to write stories?
(a) During his first year of school.
(b) After he finishes school.
(c) When he is eight or nine.
(d) While he is in kindergarten.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does King state he feels about writing for money?

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?

3. What animal appears in the image King describes in the second chapter?

4. What is King's overall opinion on writing as a profession?

5. To which substance is King first addicted as a young man?

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