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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of verbs does King recommend be used when writing?
(a) Verbs in the active voice, present tense.
(b) Verbs of vivid action.
(c) Verbs in the active voice.
(d) Verbs in the passive voice, past tense.

2. What is King's most important injunction to writers?
(a) Writers must be original.
(b) Writers must work every day.
(c) Writers should be honest.
(d) Writers need to have their own space.

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

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) On this number and what it might mean.
(d) The other details about the animal.

5. Why does King miss his first year of school?
(a) Because of his father.
(b) Because he moves too many times.
(c) Because his mother homeschools him.
(d) Because of chronic ear and throat infections.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does King get a job to help pay for college?

2. In the chapter, C.V., King touches on the theme of the book. What is this theme?

3. What kind of a book is On Writing?

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

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

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