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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 types of singing does Don hear in heaven?

2. What have the doctors told Eva about Don's chances with the pneumonia?

3. Why does Don get more depressed when thinking about his friend in the frame?

4. What happened to Dick and Anita when they returned to driving?

5. Who invented the Iliazrov frame?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the conference Don attended focused upon?

3. How do the people around Don appear?

4. What do the paramedics do about Don when they first arrive at the scene of the accident?

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

6. Where does Don go after his first surgeries?

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

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

9. What is the Iliazrov Frame and how is it used?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dick's wife, Anita, leans over to Don and whispers that Dick never held Don's hand. Don stares at her in disbelief as Anita explains how Dick had to squeeze through the trunk and was barely able to reach Don's shoulder. Don's hand was laying on the passenger side door and there was no possible way Dick could have reached it. Don realizes that the hand he felt holding him tightly was an angel's. Don realizes that even when he does not feel it, that hand is always there supporting Don as he moves through life.

1. Do you think Don was hallucinating someone holding his hand? Why or why not?

2. Do you think Dick's wife should have told Don the truth about where Dick was? Why or why not?

3. Do you think it was an angel holding Don's hand when he woke? 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

As Don describes heaven, the reader relaxes and time comes to a standstill. The reader begins to wonder about who will comprise his own heavenly welcoming committee.

1. Explain why you agree or disagree with the above statement.

2. Many people have claimed to have died and report many different scenarios. Why do you think this might be?

3. Describe what you would like to see and who you would like to see if you had been in Don's place.

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