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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 years of Eddie's life does the author reveal through this storyline?
(a) Forty-seven.
(b) Seventy-five.
(c) Eighty-two.
(d) Eighty.

2. Who says, "weddings are for possibilities."?
(a) Noel.
(b) Eddie.
(c) Marguerite.
(d) Ruby.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter Fourteen serves as what part of the plot?

2. What lesson does Tala teach Eddie?

3. In Chapter Twelve, who beckons Eddie to come nearer?

4. What happens to Eddie's belongings?

5. What does Eddie tell Marguerite?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Eddie's father die?

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

3. What does the reader learn about Eddie through the short snippets describing his various birthdays?

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

5. How does the estate attorney view Eddie's life?

6. At this point, Albom has shown the reader a span of seventy-five years in only ten, short chapters. How is Albom's storytelling effective?

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

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

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

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

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