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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is different about Eddie when he wakes up?
(a) He can walk without his cane.
(b) He floats.
(c) He looks different.
(d) He is young again.

3. What happens to Eddie at the end of Chapter One?
(a) He becomes crippled from an accident at the Pier.
(b) He quits his job at the Pier.
(c) He celebrates his birthday.
(d) He dies in an accident at the Pier.

4. What birthday does Eddie celebrate in Chapter Five?
(a) Eighteenth.
(b) Seventeenth.
(c) Thirteenth.
(d) Twenty-first.

5. What does Eddie wonder about in Chapter Seven?
(a) Whether Rabozzo went to Heaven.
(b) Whether the Captain felt any pain before he died.
(c) Whether he will ever return to Ruby Pier.
(d) Whether he saves the girl at Ruby Pier.

6. What does Uncle Mickey do to Eddie during his birthday?
(a) Gets into a fight with him.
(b) Bumps Eddie's head several times.
(c) Kisses him.
(d) Slaps Eddie's shoulders in congratulations.

7. 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.

8. Who says, "you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."?
(a) Eddie's father.
(b) The Blue Man.
(c) Uncle Mickey.
(d) Eddie.

9. 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.

10. What does the Captain receive from Eddie?
(a) A medal of honor.
(b) Eddie's dog tags.
(c) Forgiveness for shooting him in the leg.
(d) Validation that the rest of the men made it out safely.

11. What happens to the little girl that Eddie talks with on the platform of Freddie Fall?
(a) She is kidnapped.
(b) She falls off the ride.
(c) She is in an accident with the Freddie Fall cart.
(d) She loses her mommy.

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

13. How does Eddie celebrate his birthday in Chapter Two?
(a) With a pony ride.
(b) With a nice dinner.
(c) At a picnic at the Pier.
(d) With a party at home.

14. What happens to the field where Chapter Seven opens?
(a) It becomes lush, green, and unscarred.
(b) It turns to a forest.
(c) It disappears.
(d) It burns up.

15. What does Eddie see when he dies?
(a) Marguerite.
(b) Different colors and changing landscape.
(c) God.
(d) Heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Eddie and Marguerite have their first date?

2. What is happening at the Ruby Pier of the present in Chapter Five?

3. Who says, "War is not a game. If there's a shot to be made, you make it, you hear? No guilt. No hesitation...."?

4. Whom does Eddie see in front of the freak show?

5. Who usually starts the workday at Ruby Pier?

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