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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 say angel wings sound like?

2. Who is waiting for Don at the hospital?

3. What happens in the morning about Don's pneumonia?

4. Who was one of the first people he saw who was not a relative?

5. Eventually, which dead loved one greets Don first?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Don feeling in the hospital and who tries to help him?

2. What happens six days after Don's accident and what are Eva's and David Gentiles' response? What do the doctors discover?

3. What does Dick do when he goes to Don's car?

4. Who was driving the vehicle that hit Don, what was it carrying and why was that driver driving the vehicle?

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

6. What is the conference Don attended focused upon?

7. Why is a justice of the peace called to the scene?

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

9. What does Don see when he first arrives in heaven?

10. What is one thing that happens that gives Don hope?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Now that Eva is the only breadwinner and decision maker, she gains a new confidence in herself. She also appreciates Don more for all the hard work he shoulders for the family.

1. What do you think this statement implies about Eva before the accident?

2. Do you think the above statement implies that Eva felt inferior to her husband? Why or why not?

3. Explain how you believe a woman who believes in total equality between the sexes would view the above statement.

Essay Topic 2

Don continues to suffer from severe depression. He is battling anger, which is often unleashed on the medical staff.

1. Discuss why Don might take his anger out on the medical staff.

2. Discuss how you think you would feel in Don's position?

3. Why do you think the staff tolerates Don's anger and abuse?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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