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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What lesson does Eddie learn in Chapter Seven?
(a) That forgiveness is easy.
(b) That sacrifice is essential.
(c) That war causes permanent damage.
(d) That love is painful.

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

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

4. How does Eddie feel when he wakes up?
(a) Happy and alive.
(b) Sad and alone.
(c) Wonderful, but alone.
(d) Young, but skeptical.

5. What do Eddie and the other two soldiers decide to do before escaping?
(a) Take enemy soldiers captive.
(b) Have a funeral for Rabozzo.
(c) Steal from the enemy camps.
(d) Burn the barracks and blow up the mines.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Eddie wake up in Chapter Three?

2. What causes the Blue Man's death?

3. What world event is happening in Chapter Five?

4. The reader learns that Mitch Albom is clearly trying to share what with the reader?

5. 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."?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the reader learn about "Eddie Maintenance" in Chapter One?

2. What is the significance, or lack of significance, of time in Heaven?

3. Discuss the significance of the title of Chapter Two, "The Journey."

4. How does the author traverse time and introduce the reader to different points in Eddie's life?

5. What does Eddie feel from the Blue Man when the Blue Man hugs Eddie?

6. Discuss the significance of Albom's use of color in Chapter Two?

7. What happens when Eddie realizes the danger is not over at the Freddy Free Fall?

8. Discuss the significance of the title of Chapter Three, "The Arrival".

9. Discuss Eddie's encounter with the first character he meets in Heaven, the Blue Man.

10. Why is it significant that Eddie's body feels like that of a child when he first meets the Blue Man?

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