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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is one reason for reading the book, On Writing?
2. What happens with the electromagnet experiment?
3. What is the first object described in the image in the second chapter?
4. What does King suggest that readers who do not take writing seriously do?
5. When does King begin to submit stories to magazines?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what ways is the rabbit on the table of symbol of King's belief in magic and telepathy? Explain in your own words.
2. In what way is the chapter, What Writing Is, different from the usual book on writing?
3. In a short paper, summarize the main points of King's life as an author.
4. What inferences can you make from King's statement that writing is magic? Explain in your own words.
5. King believed that writing is telepathy. What is telepathy in the context of this statement?
6. Based on the chapters, C.V., and What Writing Is, what ideas justify King's statement that writing is a serious job?
7. In what way is the book, On Writing, to be different from King's usual work?
8. What are some of the things King remembers from his childhood? How might they have affected his writing?
9. What are some of the aspects of writing that King is not going to emphasize in the chapter, What Writing Is?
10. What facts or ideas show the beginnings of King's career as a master of horror?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is writing as a passion different from writing as a career? What ideas in this text justify King's statement?
Essay Topic 2
Based on the book, On Writing, what is the most important item in the writer's toolbox? Why is this important? Support your argument with ideas from the text.
Essay Topic 3
What conclusions can you draw from King's statements about a writer having his own space in which to work? What alternatives are there for those people who want to write but find it impossible to obtain a space in their living quarters?
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