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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Eddie come across big money?
(a) Wins at the racetrack.
(b) Joe lends him the money.
(c) Gets a raise at work.
(d) He finds it beneath a ride.

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

3. Who tries to save Mickey Shea from drowning?
(a) Eddie.
(b) A carnival worker.
(c) Eddie's father.
(d) An ocean lifeguard.

4. With whom does Eddie's father die?
(a) His wife.
(b) No one.
(c) Joe.
(d) Eddie.

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

6. Eddie and Marguerite save money for what big event?
(a) A new apartment.
(b) New car.
(c) Adoption of a child.
(d) Wedding anniversary party.

7. What is the lesson in Chapter Eleven?
(a) Lost love is still love; it just takes a different form.
(b) It's better to have loved and lost than never loved at all.
(c) Life is short and there is no time for regret.
(d) Forgiveness comes easily with love.

8. Who says, "Life has to end; love doesn't."?
(a) Eddie's attorney.
(b) Marguerite.
(c) Eddie.
(d) Eddie's boss.

9. Why is Eddie envious of Joe?
(a) Joe gets to come home clean.
(b) Joe has a beautiful wife.
(c) Eddie's father loves Joe more than Eddie.
(d) Joe has a new car.

10. What does Eddie see?
(a) Marguerite, beckoning him.
(b) Devastation of war.
(c) Brown-skinned children playing in a river.
(d) Angels.

11. How does Eddie's father treat his sons?
(a) Carelessly.
(b) Respectfully.
(c) Lovingly.
(d) Neglectfully.

12. Later, where does Amy or Annie meet an old man?
(a) At the Freddy Fall, at the Pier.
(b) On the boardwalk of the Pier.
(c) In the Stardust Band Shell, at the Pier
(d) At the bench where Eddie made her pipe cleaner animals.

13. Who is the third person Eddie meets in Heaven?
(a) His father.
(b) The little girl from the tent.
(c) An old woman.
(d) Rabozzo.

14. What does Eddie tell Marguerite?
(a) He loves her and he is sorry.
(b) He wished he could save her.
(c) He forgives her.
(d) He wishes he had been a better husband.

15. Who finally leads Eddie to Heaven?
(a) Tala; her hands were in his.
(b) Marguerite; her love guides him to Heaven.
(c) Rabozzo; he shows Eddie that he is really okay.
(d) His father; he has to seek Eddie's forgiveness.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what does Marguerite eventually die?

2. Who is Tala?

3. How does Eddie spend his first birthday after Marguerite's death?

4. Why is Eddie's father not able to speak?

5. What does Joe do for a living?

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