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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Don ask his three children to do?
(a) Be good and listen to Eva.
(b) Make all A's in school.
(c) Try out for sports.
(d) Write about how their life is affected.

2. How does Don get home when he leaves the hospital?
(a) A helicopter.
(b) An ambulance.
(c) His pastor picks him up.
(d) His wife picks him up.

3. What does Don believe about why he didn't die?
(a) His children needed him.
(b) He has a purpose to fulfill.
(c) His wife is really bad at business decisions.
(d) Dick needed to have faith in prayer.

4. What did Eva have to hold her tongue sometimes with Don?
(a) So she wouldn't be sarcastic.
(b) To not scream at him.
(c) So she wouldn't patronize him.
(d) To not tell him what he didn't want to know.

5. What did Don do the night before he left the hospital?
(a) Talked to his children on the phone.
(b) Went to the hospital chapel.
(c) Cried all night.
(d) Watched an old movie.

6. What kind of feelings does Joe say he has?
(a) Joy at his father's life.
(b) Calm and peaceful feelings.
(c) Separation anxiety.
(d) Depression and anger.

7. What does Don decide he can do a week after being home?
(a) Go to the store.
(b) Go to the movies with Eva.
(c) Attend church.
(d) Sit out on the lawn.

8. What does Don think he is doing when he tells people of his time in heaven?
(a) Preparing them for their journey to heaven.
(b) Gaining sympathy.
(c) Making them want to be better people.
(d) Making them become Christians.

9. How does Don describe Joyce, Eva's sister-in-law?
(a) She was quiet and demur.
(b) She was depressed often.
(c) She was a holy woman.
(d) A fireball of a woman who loved to sing.

10. For how long does Don have trouble discussing his trip to heaven?
(a) For six months.
(b) For five years.
(c) For several years.
(d) For seven years.

11. Who does he call who is in an Iliazrov Frame after the television show?
(a) A man hurt in a bar fight.
(b) His brother in Seattle.
(c) His mother.
(d) The hospital.

12. How does Don feel telling the story now?
(a) He still struggles with it.
(b) He is indifferent to it.
(c) He is reluctant but willing.
(d) He loves to tell it.

13. What did Chris do when he every time he came home?
(a) Gave his father a gentle hug.
(b) Gave his father a homemade present.
(c) Offered to clean the house.
(d) Got in a fight with his mother.

14. What had Don at first told Eva about his death?
(a) All of it.
(b) He didn't tell her about wanting to stay.
(c) Everything but the singing.
(d) A tiny portion.

15. What kind of car did Don's son, Joe, decide to buy?
(a) A Ford Mustang.
(b) A Hummer.
(c) A Ford Ranger.
(d) A Chevy pick-up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Don say about being broken up in the accident?

2. What did Don find out later about when he woke and was singing?

3. How is Chad's emotional state when Don visits?

4. Who told Don about what really happened at the accident when he woke?

5. What is the worst part of Don's recovery?

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