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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the author doing in Chapter Three?
(a) Showing readers Eddie's weaknesses.
(b) Weaving together present with future.
(c) Weaving together past with present.
(d) Showing readers Eddie's future.

2. In death, what step is Ruby Pier for the Blue Man?
(a) The third step.
(b) The final step.
(c) The second step.
(d) The first step.

3. Why does Eddie feel like his body is that of a child in Chapter Four?
(a) Because he tried to save a child during his life on earth.
(b) His childhood was the happiest time of his life.
(c) Because he has gotten younger.
(d) He was a child when he knew the Blue Man.

4. Where does the reader first meet Eddie?
(a) In his apartment.
(b) In the hospital where he is first born.
(c) At a dance with Marguerite.
(d) Ruby Pier.

5. What causes the Blue Man's death?
(a) An accident at the freak show.
(b) He fell from a ride.
(c) Eddie's baseball.
(d) Bad medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Eddie's last memory of being alive?

2. How long has Eddie been at the Pier after he died?

3. Whose philosophy reads, "When your time came, it came, and that was that"?

4. What does the young man at the Pier lose, causing havoc later?

5. What does Eddie do for a living?

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