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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. How many lessons have been learned thus far?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Ten.
(d) Three.

2. What does Eddie say to Marguerite about the war?
(a) "I killed ten men."
(b) "It was unbearable."
(c) "Too much bloodshed caused too much pain."
(d) "I lost myself."

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

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

5. Where does Eddie meet the fourth person in Heaven?
(a) At a diner.
(b) On the boardwalk.
(c) At the Pier.
(d) At a wedding reception.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Eddie's first birthday after Marguerite's death?

3. How does Eddie feel when he returns home from the war?

4. What does Eddie hear at the opening of Chapter Twelve?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain Ruby's lesson to Eddie.

3. Eddie washes Tala with a stone. What is the significance of this action?

4. How is Eddie's and Marguerite's relationship impacted by the fallout from the track and Marguerite's accident?

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

6. What does Tala teach Eddie?

7. Eddie's father saves Mickey Shea. Considering Mickey's actions, what does this rescue say about Eddie's father?

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

9. How does the fifth person Eddie meets in Heaven reveal Eddie's character?

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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