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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 does Betty say about fear within the swirling black mass?

2. As Betty feels an enormous, powerful energy around her, what happens to her hospital room?

3. Prior to feeling her body become still and lifeless, Betty experiences:

4. As she travels through the whirling black mass, Betty picks up speed to the point where she feels she's:

5. When Betty talks with Jesus in heaven, she learns that his mission had been to come into the world to:

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Betty need to have a partial hysterectomy?

2. How do some of the events of Betty's childhood foreshadow what she is about to cover later in the book?

3. Why did Betty not listen to the advice of her doctors who wanted her to have an abortion?

4. Describe the garden setting.

5. A pinpoint of light appears at the end of the tunnel. As she gets closer, what does Betty see within the light?

6. What does the man radiating light and love tell Betty?

7. As a child, how does Betty learn to fear God?

8. What are the laws described in Chapter 7?

9. Before this particular hospital stay where she is scheduled for a partial hysterectomy, Betty was admitted to the hospital for another reason. What was that reason?

10. What does the experience of being a rose teach Betty?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and analyze some of the individuals Betty meets in the spirit world. What is the purpose of each? How does each individual help advance the plot?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the modes of communication, transportation, illumination, and knowledge acquisition in the realm Betty visits during her near-death experience.

Essay Topic 3

Through her descriptions, Betty tries to incorporate all of the senses to give the reader a more complete picture of her experience. For each sense -- sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell -- select a passage from the book and analyze how her written description triggers that particular sense.

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