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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Eddie sad when he was living?
(a) He was scarred by the war.
(b) He missed his wife.
(c) He hated his father.
(d) He felt as though he accomplished nothing.

2. What do Eddie and Marguerite discuss in Chapter Eleven?
(a) The baby they could never have.
(b) The pain of missing one another for so many years.
(c) The war.
(d) Eddie's father.

3. How long after Eddie's death does the park reopen?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) One day.
(c) One week.
(d) Three days.

4. For whom does Eddie's father cry when he is hospitalized?
(a) His mother.
(b) God.
(c) His wife, Joe, and Eddie.
(d) Mickey Shea

5. How does Eddie spend his sixtieth birthday?
(a) He visits the place he and Marguerite first met.
(b) He rides the rides on the Pier.
(c) He goes to work and fishes.
(d) He sleeps all day.

6. What does the reader learn about Eddie's character in Chapter Eight?
(a) He is dependable, trustworthy and kind.
(b) He is motivated, yet unfulfilled.
(c) He is lazy, angry and resentful.
(d) He is diligent and regimented.

7. Whose key is the cause of the Freddy Fall cable being shredded?
(a) The assistant maintenance worker.
(b) Ruby's great-grandson.
(c) Amy or Annie's brother.
(d) Tala's father.

8. What does Joe do for a living?
(a) Car dealer.
(b) Maintenance man.
(c) Salesman.
(d) Stock broker.

9. Who is Tala?
(a) His daughter.
(b) The girl Eddie saves from Freddy Fall.
(c) The girl who dies in the tent in the Philippines.
(d) A child Eddie kept safe by doing his job at the Pier.

10. Who says, "Is where you were supposed to be, Eddie Main-ten-ance"?
(a) Tala.
(b) Eddie's boss.
(c) Annie or Amy.
(d) Joe.

11. How old was Eddie's father when he died?
(a) Fifty-six.
(b) Seventy.
(c) Forty-seven.
(d) Eighty-five.

12. Who is Eddie's father's hospital roommate?
(a) Ruby.
(b) The Blue Man.
(c) Ruby's husband, Emile.
(d) Mickey Shea.

13. Where does the story end?
(a) In Heaven.
(b) In the future, at the Pier.
(c) In the past, at the Pier.
(d) In the present, at the Pier.

14. Who is the fourth person Eddie meets in Heaven?
(a) Ruby's husband.
(b) Eddie's father.
(c) Amy or Annie.
(d) Marguerite

15. How does Eddie feel when he returns home from the war?
(a) Sad and resentful.
(b) Useless and used.
(c) Depressed and helpless.
(d) Angry and hurt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eddie and Marguerite save money for what big event?

2. Who pays for Eddie's funeral?

3. What is the result of Marguerite's hospitalization?

4. Who says, "weddings are for possibilities."?

5. How does Eddie's father help Eddie?

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