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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 was the vehicle that hit Don's car carrying?

2. What does Don start to do after six weeks in the hospital?

3. What do the doctors find out about Don's breathing tube?

4. How does Don feel after all the care is given everyday?

5. What does Don believe as he thinks about the circumstances surrounding his accident?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Don not experience and what does he experience when he dies?

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

4. What happens to Don on a daily or basis that leaves him in pain and exhausted?

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

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

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

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

9. How does Don feel about being in heaven?

10. What is the conference Don attended focused upon?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

As Don struggles to process what has happened to him, various people point out that Don must open himself up if he is going to survive. Don must accept the help of others, learn to share his story and adjust to a new way of living his life.

1. Discuss why it might be necessary for Don to open himself up to survive. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Do you think everyone needs to learn to accept help from others? Why or why not?

3. What are some of the ways you've seen in the book that Don is adjusting to a new way of life?

Essay Topic 3

Most people would have prayed for Don's soul to find a happy home in heaven, not that a dead man would have no internal injuries. In the face of such insurmountable odds, Dick's prayers seem futile and ridiculous.

1. What kind of person do you think Dick is given his actions at the accident site?

2. Do you think if you were in Dick's position you would have done what he did? Why or why not?

3. Do you agree with the last sentence above? Why or why not?

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