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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Don feel about his life now?
(a) He wants to return to heaven.
(b) It is still painful.
(c) There is always a presence with him.
(d) He still feels depressed.

4. What did Joyce love to listen to?
(a) Gospel music.
(b) Don's story of heaven.
(c) Rock and roll.
(d) Television preachers.

5. When Don is on a television show who calls to speak with him?
(a) His wife.
(b) A woman.
(c) David Gentiles.
(d) Dick.

6. How do people react to Don's story when he's telling it?
(a) Eager to listen and ask questions.
(b) Sad to have missed it.
(c) Afraid.
(d) Skeptical.

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

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

9. How does one friend think Don is supposed to use the story?
(a) To encourage people.
(b) To prove he is special.
(c) To scare people into believing in God.
(d) To show that the brain helps a person when dying.

10. What kinds of people does Don seem to come in contact with following his recovery?
(a) Healthy people.
(b) Those who don't believe his story.
(c) Those needing to hear his story.
(d) Religious people.

11. How is Don taken care of at home with Eva gone to work?
(a) The church uses volunteers.
(b) His mother moves in with them.
(c) The children rotate the duty.
(d) They have a day nurse.

12. What amazes Don most about being on the television show?
(a) That he was able to help someone due to exposure.
(b) That his wife looked so good on television.
(c) That he wore a suit for the first time since the accident.
(d) That they would want to hear his story.

13. What do the twins quit doing around their father?
(a) Sports in which he can't participate.
(b) Fighting between them.
(c) Teasing their sister.
(d) Disobeying their mother.

14. What does Don's story give the lady who was sobbing?
(a) Hope for herself.
(b) Fear for not being saved.
(c) Something to think about.
(d) Peace about people dying.

15. Who takes care of Don when Eva take the children on a week long camping trip?
(a) His mother.
(b) A hired nurse.
(c) His father.
(d) David Gentiles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Charlie when he is diagnosed with cancer after Don talks to him?

2. Why is Don reluctant to share his story?

3. Who is Chad Vowell?

4. How does Don describe Joyce, Eva's sister-in-law?

5. How does Don think his story can help people?

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