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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the King brothers' newspaper contain?
(a) Stories told to King about his family.
(b) Local gossip and family news.
(c) Family and neighborhood news.
(d) Stories about family members.

2. What are King's feelings on grammar study?
(a) Grammar should be studied at length.
(b) Grammar should be studied only through high school.
(c) Lengthy grammar study is unnecessary.
(d) Grammar should be learned intuitively.

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

4. According to King, who determines what the image in the second chapter looks like?
(a) The translator.
(b) The reader.
(c) The writer.
(d) No one.

5. Why is it important to King that a writer not be distracted while working?
(a) He believes that distractions make achieving a high number of words impossible.
(b) He suggests that writers need solitude to clarify their thoughts.
(c) He thinks writers achieve their best work in solitude.
(d) He feels that distractions cause a writer to lose the desire to work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What number appears in King's image?

2. Whom does King meet while in college?

3. Why does King describe the image in the second chapter the way he does?

4. What kind of a book is On Writing?

5. What is the first object described in the image in the second chapter?

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