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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the significance of the day in Chapter One for Eddie?
(a) It is his co-worker's wife's birthday.
(b) It is his birthday.
(c) It is Christmas day.
(d) It is the opening day of the season at Ruby Pier.

2. Whose philosophy reads, "When your time came, it came, and that was that"?
(a) A child's.
(b) Eddie's.
(c) Marguerite's.
(d) Eddie's father.

3. Where do Eddie and Marguerite have their first date?
(a) At a dance at the Pier.
(b) At a restaurant.
(c) At the movies.
(d) At a concert.

4. What happens to the Freddie Fall car?
(a) It gets stuck in the air and cannot come down.
(b) It will not move to make the ride operate.
(c) Its safety harness does not work, causing passengers to be in danger.
(d) The car is tilted and passengers are in danger.

5. What is Eddie's last memory of being alive?
(a) Marguerite.
(b) Working at the Pier.
(c) The cart falling on the little girl.
(d) The war.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eddie feel after he has died?

2. What does the author use as symbolism in Chapter Two?

3. What is the last thing Eddie remembers physically feeling before he dies?

4. Who does the author introduce in a flashback at the end of Chapter One?

5. Who is Uncle Mickey?

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