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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What purpose does Amy or Annie serve in the story thus far?
(a) To foreshadow events.
(b) To give purpose to the setting.
(c) To shock the reader.
(d) To build suspense.

3. What does Eddie do for a living?
(a) Performs maintenance at an amusement park.
(b) He is a carnival clown.
(c) He is a handyman.
(d) He is in the military.

4. Where does Eddie meet the love of his life?
(a) At Ruby Pier.
(b) At an eating establishment.
(c) At a church dance.
(d) Overseas when he was a soldier.

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

6. What do Eddie and the other three soldiers have to do while imprisoned?
(a) Share military secrets.
(b) Build new enemy huts.
(c) Work in a coal mine.
(d) Beat other inmates.

7. What does Eddie make for the little girl at the Pier in Chapter 1?
(a) An ice cream cone.
(b) A magic trick.
(c) A rabbit made from balloons.
(d) A pipe cleaner rabbit.

8. Who is the first person Eddie meets in Heaven?
(a) His brother.
(b) The Blue Man.
(c) His dad.
(d) Dominiguez, his assistant from Ruby Pier.

9. What does the author use as symbolism in Chapter Two?
(a) The Pier.
(b) Colors.
(c) The birthday song.
(d) People.

10. Who says, "War is not a game. If there's a shot to be made, you make it, you hear? No guilt. No hesitation...."?
(a) Eddie's father.
(b) The Captain.
(c) Eddie's brother.
(d) Mickey Shea.

11. What does Eddie decide to do for a profession when he is young?
(a) He becomes a maintenance worker.
(b) He becomes a teacher.
(c) He enlists in the army.
(d) He becomes an engineer.

12. In Chapter Three, where does Eddie stop at the Pier?
(a) In front of the freak show.
(b) In front of the Freddy Fall.
(c) In front of the Ferris Wheel.
(d) In front of the popcorn machine.

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

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

15. Where does Eddie wind up on his journey through death in Chapter Two?
(a) At the Pier.
(b) Under water.
(c) In Heaven.
(d) In a field.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Eddie first share the news that he found the girl he wishes to marry?

2. How does Eddie feel when he wakes up?

3. Who says, "dying is not the end, it is only the beginning."?

4. To whom does Eddie run for refuge from Uncle Mickey?

5. Who usually starts the workday at Ruby Pier?

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