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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who will be one of Annie or Amy's people she meets in Heaven?
(a) Her mom.
(b) Her spouse.
(c) Eddie.
(d) Tala.

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

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

5. What does Eddie do on his seventy-fifth birthday?
(a) Goes fishing.
(b) Works at the park.
(c) Takes a drive.
(d) Goes to the racetrack.

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

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

8. What does Eddie learn about the last day he was alive?
(a) That the little girl was killed by the cart and will meet him in Heaven.
(b) That the park had to close without him.
(c) That many people cried when he died.
(d) That he saves the little girl from the falling cart.

9. Why is Eddie's father not able to speak?
(a) He is indifferent.
(b) He is a part of the woman's eternity, but not truly present.
(c) He is being punished for his abusive behavior during his lifetime.
(d) He needs to listen in order to learn his lessons.

10. What does Eddie hear at the opening of Chapter Twelve?
(a) Silence.
(b) Angels singing.
(c) Laughter.
(d) Singing.

11. How old is Marguerite when she dies?
(a) Forty-seven.
(b) Thirty-nine.
(c) Seventy-five.
(d) Sixty-two.

12. What was Eddie's promotion?
(a) Ticket taker.
(b) Head of maintenance.
(c) Cashier.
(d) Manager.

13. Chapter Fourteen serves as what part of the plot?
(a) The climax.
(b) The falling action.
(c) The denouement, or resolution.
(d) The introduction.

14. What is Eddie's first birthday after Marguerite's death?
(a) Forty-seven.
(b) Fifty-one.
(c) Seventy.
(d) Sixty-two.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, "Life has to end; love doesn't."?

2. Who pays for Eddie's funeral?

3. How many years of Eddie's life does the author reveal through this storyline?

4. How much money does Eddie have in the bank?

5. What color does Eddie see in Chapter Twelve?

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