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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. How does the author portray Uncle Mickey in Chapter Two?
(a) As malicious.
(b) As oblivious.
(c) As insensitive to a child.
(d) As kind.

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

4. What does Eddie first ask the first person he meets in Heaven?
(a) How did Eddie die?
(b) How old is Eddie now?
(c) How long will Eddie be at the Pier?
(d) Why is the Pier Heaven?

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

6. What does Marguerite tell Eddie before he leaves for the war?
(a) That she will wait for him.
(b) That she cannot wait for him.
(c) That she will marry another man.
(d) That she loves him.

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

8. 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 the opening day of the season at Ruby Pier.
(c) It is his birthday.
(d) It is Christmas day.

9. When was the freak show shut down?
(a) Twenty-five years ago.
(b) Five years ago.
(c) Fifty years ago.
(d) Eighty years ago.

10. What does Eddie learn about his voice in Heaven?
(a) It is only permitted during urgent situations.
(b) It will come; silence helps people listen.
(c) It will change once Eddie learns his lessons.
(d) It has disappeared forever.

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

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

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

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

15. 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."?
(a) The Blue Man.
(b) Eddie.
(c) The priest.
(d) The funeral director.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eddie feel after he has died?

2. Who says, "you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."?

3. Where does the reader learn that Eddie and three other soldiers are being held?

4. What does the Captain receive from Eddie?

5. What does Eddie learn from the Blue Man?

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