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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the captain get Lizzie off the ship?
(a) He threatens her.
(b) He talks comforting words to her.
(c) He lies to her.
(d) He picks her up.

2. Who is Lizzie's best friend?
(a) Trina.
(b) Chloe.
(c) Zooey.
(d) Mina.

3. What does Lucy pretend to feel better at the beginning of the book?
(a) She will live again.
(b) Lizzie went to college.
(c) Her children will visit.
(d) She is in a better place now.

4. Who hears Lizzie when she tries to communicate with her family?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her aunt.

5. Where does Lizzie get the money to watch people in snippets?
(a) She begs for it.
(b) She steals it.
(c) She works for it.
(d) Betty gives it to her.

6. What are the parents trying to comfort themselves about at the beginning of the book?
(a) Moving.
(b) Lizzie's death.
(c) Selling Lucy.
(d) Lucy's illness.

7. What is the name of the vessel Lizzie is on at the beginning of the book?
(a) The Nice.
(b) The Nine.
(c) The Noun.
(d) The Nile.

8. What did Lizzie die of?
(a) Drug overdose.
(b) Illness.
(c) Car accident.
(d) Gunshot wound.

9. Where is Lizzie offered a job in the land of the dead?
(a) The Department of Last Words.
(b) The Department of Newcomer Counseling.
(c) The Department of Deportation.
(d) The Department of Domestic Animals.

10. Why does Thandie get mad at Lizzie?
(a) She has taken a long time to come see her.
(b) She is still fixated on Earth.
(c) All of these.
(d) She doesn't do her job well.

11. How does Lizzie find out that her killer is unidentified?
(a) It comes to her in a dream.
(b) She hears her parents talking about it.
(c) Betty tells her.
(d) She reads it in the Elsewhere paper.

12. How do the dead age?
(a) In reverse.
(b) By wish.
(c) One year per decade.
(d) Not at all.

13. Who is waiting for Lizzie when the ship stops?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her sister.

14. What color are the only clothes Lizzie has when she first gets to the land of the dead?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Blue.

15. What is Lizzie's first dream in the land of the dead?
(a) She gets a birthday party.
(b) Her whole family joins her.
(c) She recovers from her injuries.
(d) She is born.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Thandie feel when the boat stops?

2. What is Lizzie doing when the details of dead aging are explained?

3. What did the girl with Lizzie at the beginning of the book die of?

4. What is the name of the girl with Lizzie when she wakes up at the beginning of the book?

5. Who does Lizzie watch in snippets?

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