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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mickey Shea do to anger Eddie's father?
(a) Hits Eddie.
(b) Causes Eddie's father to lose his job.
(c) Tries to assault Eddie's mother.
(d) Steals money from Eddie's father.

2. What talent does Eddie have that eventually helps him escape from prison during the war?
(a) He's a comedian.
(b) He does magic tricks.
(c) He sings.
(d) He juggles.

3. In Chapter Eleven, where is the story set?
(a) The Pier and Eddie's apartment.
(b) The Pier and Eddie's car.
(c) The ocean.
(d) The boardwalk.

4. What does Eddie say to Marguerite about the war?
(a) "I lost myself."
(b) "It was unbearable."
(c) "Too much bloodshed caused too much pain."
(d) "I killed ten men."

5. What does Eddie hear at the opening of Chapter Twelve?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Singing.
(c) Silence.
(d) Angels singing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who says, "You have peace when you make it with yourself."?

3. What does Eddie first ask the first person he meets in Heaven?

4. Why is Eddie's father not able to speak?

5. Who says, "the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect....death doesn't take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed."?

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