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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 are the two major energy forces in the universe?

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

3. At the hospital, Betty asks for a room with a window because ever since she was a child, she's had:

4. The author notices that people enjoy creating things in heaven, and she comes to understand that all things of importance are:

5. What does Betty clarify regarding the relationship between the spirit and the flesh?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Betty say happens when our thoughts draw upon negative energies at length?

2. Describe Betty's otherworldly experience of immersing herself in a rose.

3. Describe what Betty experiences as she travels inside the vortex.

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

5. 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?

6. What can our illnesses teach us?

7. Compare and contrast Betty's first and second marriages.

8. What does Betty see people doing in the looms room?

9. Contrast what Betty learns about God first at the Catholic boarding school and later at Brainard Indian Training School.

10. Describe Betty's second husband, Joe.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Summarize Betty's experience of traveling through a tornado-like black mass as she transitions from life on earth to life in heaven.

1. What does she see, hear, feel, and experience within this mass?

2. What does she see at the end of this tunnel?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Select four major themes carried throughout the book. Describe and briefly analyze each theme. Then, for each theme, explain whether it was carried through effectively. Support your reasons with examples.

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