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

2. What lesson does Tala teach Eddie?
(a) That his life mattered.
(b) That acceptance provides happiness.
(c) That love conquers all.
(d) That forgiveness is freeing.

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

4. Where is Chapter Eight set?
(a) On a farm, hosting a carnival.
(b) In a field, in a car.
(c) In a helicopter, leaving a battle.
(d) On a mountain range, in a diner.

5. Who says, "The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."?
(a) Annie or Amy, in the Epilogue.
(b) Eddie, in the Epilogue.
(c) The author, in the Epilogue.
(d) Tala, in the Epilogue.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what are Eddie's co-worker and estate attorney looking?

2. Who finally leads Eddie to Heaven?

3. What was Eddie's promotion?

4. From what does Marguerite eventually die?

5. What do Eddie and Marguerite discuss in Chapter Eleven?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Eddie feel when he returns home from the VA hospital?

2. How does Eddie's father die?

3. Is the estate attorney's view of Eddie accurate? Why or why not?

4. How does Albom use Eddie's birthdays to pass time in Chapter Twelve?

5. Describe Eddie's relationship with Joe.

6. Why is a reception hall an appropriate place for Eddie to meet Marguerite in Heaven?

7. What was Eddie's relationship like with his father?

8. How does the reader know that Eddie's memory will be kept alive at the Pier?

9. How will Amy or Annie's visit to Heaven be connected to Eddie?

10. Clearly, Chapter thirteen is used as the falling action for the reader. How is Tala's lesson a resolution for Eddie, as well?

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