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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 does Eddie spend his last birthday?
(a) He walks the boardwalk.
(b) He visits his family's and Marguerite's graves.
(c) He works.
(d) He goes to church.

2. How does Eddie spend his sixtieth birthday?
(a) He goes to work and fishes.
(b) He sleeps all day.
(c) He rides the rides on the Pier.
(d) He visits the place he and Marguerite first met.

3. To what does Ruby compare anger?
(a) A curved blade.
(b) Sinfulness.
(c) Fire.
(d) A magnet.

4. How much money does Eddie have in the bank?
(a) One hundred dollars.
(b) One thousand dollars.
(c) Nothing to speak of.
(d) Only the amount of his last paycheck.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what in his own life is the estate attorney pleased?

2. Who calls Eddie to wish him a happy sixty-eighth birthday?

3. Who is the last person Eddie meets in Heaven?

4. When is the story set in Chapter Eleven, after the author reveals the fourth person Eddie meets in Heaven?

5. Whose key is the cause of the Freddy Fall cable being shredded?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Chapter Twelve used as the denouement?

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

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

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

5. What does Tala teach Eddie?

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

7. Explain Ruby's lesson to Eddie.

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

9. Describe Eddie's relationship with Joe.

10. How is the person whose key shredded the cable connected to the Pier?

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