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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 does King discover horror stories?
(a) At the local theater.
(b) In the school library.
(c) At the newsstand.
(d) At his aunt and uncle's house.

2. How many specific facts are provided by King about the entire image in the second chapter?
(a) Four items and their location/relation to one another.
(b) Five.
(c) Only two: the object and a number on its back.
(d) An object, its color, and its number.

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

4. When King's principal hears about King's episode with the newspaper, what does he suggest?
(a) He tells him to stay out of trouble in the future.
(b) He tells him to get a job with a local paper as a sports writer.
(c) He encourages King to quit writing.
(d) He tells him to get a job to keep him busy.

5. What happens to Carrie several months later after its initial sale?
(a) The book sells its paperback rights to TNT for a television series.
(b) The book is made into a movie.
(c) The book is published in Spanish.
(d) The publisher sells the paperback rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when Carrie sells to a paperback publisher?

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

3. What number appears in King's image?

4. How did King describe the cloth's appearance in his image?

5. Whom does King meet while in college?

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