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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first object described in the image in the second chapter?
(a) A cage.
(b) A head.
(c) A bird.
(d) A snake.

2. What is a major theme in the second chapter of King's book?
(a) Reasons or motivations for writing.
(b) The importance of studying grammar and vocabulary.
(c) The writer's life.
(d) The necessity of studying other authors.

3. What does King suggest that readers who do not take writing seriously do?
(a) Ignore his advice completely.
(b) Stop reading the book.
(c) Read the book, but ignore the advice that conflicts with the reader's beliefs.
(d) Study the book more carefully.

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

5. What kind of stories does King particularly enjoy?
(a) Stories by O. Henry.
(b) Horror stories by Edgar Allen Poe.
(c) Humorous stories by Mark Twain.
(d) Mystery stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does King discover horror stories?

2. What is the second specific item King states his book on writing will NOT be about?

3. What happens to the person(s) on whom King bases Carrie while they were in high school?

4. How does King obtain money from his classmates?

5. King states that writing is a job that includes aspects that are ____.

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