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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Mickey Shea.
(b) The Captain.
(c) Eddie's father.
(d) Eddie's brother.

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

3. How long has Eddie been at the Pier after he died?
(a) One hour.
(b) One minute.
(c) Time doesn't matter, infinity.
(d) One thousand years.

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

5. Why can't Eddie play with the erector set he received for his eighth birthday?
(a) He misbehaved.
(b) His father takes it away.
(c) He has to attend a funeral.
(d) It breaks before he can use it.

6. What does Eddie remember thinking, right after he dies?
(a) Did he live a good life?
(b) Will he have a chance to redo anything in life?
(c) Will he see his father?
(d) Did he save the little girl?

7. What does Eddie feel after he has died?
(a) Pain.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Calm and no pain.
(d) Love.

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

9. Where does the reader learn that Eddie and three other soldiers are being held?
(a) Under ground.
(b) In a small hut.
(c) Bamboo barracks.
(d) In a steel box.

10. Who restores peace to Eddie's household in Chapter Five?
(a) Eddie
(b) Eddie's mother.
(c) Joe
(d) Eddie's father.

11. Where does Eddie wake up in Chapter Three?
(a) In the teacup ride on Ruby Pier.
(b) In heaven.
(c) In the Philippines.
(d) In his bed.

12. How does Eddie feel about the safety of Ruby Pier?
(a) He is worried that it will be closed due to safety hazards.
(b) He is proud that it has a perfect safety record.
(c) He feels happy that it is one of the last small amusement parks still open.
(d) He is concerned that it is old and the rides are worn.

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

14. Who says, "dying is not the end, it is only the beginning."?
(a) Rabozzo.
(b) The Captain.
(c) The enemy soldier.
(d) Eddie.

15. When is Chapter Three set?
(a) In Eddie's past.
(b) In the future.
(c) Before Eddie was born.
(d) During the present.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Eddie and the other three soldiers have to do while imprisoned?

2. Who says, "When you sacrifice something that is precious, he says, you don't actually lose it."?

3. How does Eddie feel when he wakes up?

4. How does Eddie celebrate his birthday in Chapter Two?

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

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