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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Aldous Ghant's occupation?
(a) Clerk.
(b) Chef.
(c) Counselor.
(d) Contractor.

2. What does Lizzie have to speak to take the job she is first offered in the land of the dead?
(a) Canine.
(b) Inner heart.
(c) All of these.
(d) Feline.

3. What was Lizzie's last word in life?
(a) Yes.
(b) Stop.
(c) Ouch.
(d) Um.

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

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

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

7. What is the Sneaker Clause?
(a) The only way to age correctly in the land of the dead.
(b) A chance for the young to wear sneakers.
(c) Something that allows young people to return to Earth.
(d) A way to choose an occupation.

8. Who does Lizzie watch in snippets?
(a) Classmates.
(b) All of these.
(c) Friends.
(d) Family members.

9. What appointment does Lizzie have on her first day in the land of the dead?
(a) Relocation.
(b) Counseling.
(c) Acclimation.
(d) De-briefing.

10. Who talks with Lizzie on the Observation Deck?
(a) Sandie.
(b) Curtis.
(c) Chloe.
(d) Lucy.

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

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

13. What is Lizzie doing when the details of dead aging are explained?
(a) Crying.
(b) Eating.
(c) Writing.
(d) Driving.

14. What is the name of the girl with Lizzie when she wakes up at the beginning of the book?
(a) Candie.
(b) Frandie.
(c) Sandie.
(d) Thandie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Well?

2. What does Lizzie vow when she hears what her last word in life was?

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

4. How does Lizzie take advantage of her invitation?

5. How does Lizzie know how to dive?

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