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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 Don start to do after six weeks in the hospital?

2. Why does Don exhaust himself with his visitors?

3. Who does Don meet who also has an Iliazrov frame?

4. Why is Don on the verge of death again six days after the accident?

5. What kind of emotion does Don continue to have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Don thinking about a few days after the accident and the events surrounding it?

2. How does Don feel about being in heaven?

3. Who are some of the people Don sees in heaven?

4. What happened to the people in the other cars that were hit?

5. What route does Don take to return home and what is that route like?

6. What hit Don and what happened to his car?

7. What are some of the coincidences that occurred around Don's accident that help him survive?

8. How do the people around Don appear?

9. Where does Don go after he leaves the accident scene?

10. What does one of the EMTs tell Dick and what does he do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What God's purpose is for Don is difficult to discern as he lies in a depressive fog confined to a hospital bed. As much as Don wants to believe that God has brought him back to earth for a reason, he struggles to find understanding.

1. Do you think Don's reaction to the accident would be considered normal? Explain your reasoning.

2. After experiencing heaven, does it seem strange that Don would be depressed and wanting understanding? Why or why not?

3. Do you believe Don has been returned to life for a reason? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Don still struggles with the question of why? He questions why he was in the accident, why he was allowed to glimpse heaven and why he had to come back; in short, he questions everything. Don has no answers to any of his questions. His lack of answers makes writing his story extremely difficult.

1. Why do you think Don still struggles with the why of his whole ordeal? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Why do you think Don might have been allowed to glimpse heaven and then come back? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Why do you think Don's lack of answers make writing his story difficult?

Essay Topic 3

Despite the large number of visitors who come to see Don in the hospital, he refuses to let anyone do anything for him. One day, Jay Perkins stops by to visit Don. Jay is a retired minister filling in for Don. Jay notices that Don never asks for help and challenges him to open up to the people who care about him. Jay tells Don that people are trying to love him in the only way they know how, but Don will not let them.

1. How would the above statement relate to the cliche, "No man is an island?"

2. Why do you think Don is refusing help from anyone? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. People in general seem to believe that doing something for someone they love is showing their love. Do you think this is true? Why or why not?

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