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

2. Why is Eddie's father not able to speak?
(a) He is being punished for his abusive behavior during his lifetime.
(b) He is a part of the woman's eternity, but not truly present.
(c) He is indifferent.
(d) He needs to listen in order to learn his lessons.

3. What does Eddie realize about his life as a maintenance worker, after speaking with Tala?
(a) That many people looked up to him.
(b) That it was mundane.
(c) That keeping the Pier clean was worthwhile.
(d) That he saved many children by keeping them safe on the rides.

4. Later, where does Amy or Annie meet an old man?
(a) At the Freddy Fall, at the Pier.
(b) In the Stardust Band Shell, at the Pier
(c) On the boardwalk of the Pier.
(d) At the bench where Eddie made her pipe cleaner animals.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Tala?

2. Who says, "Life has to end; love doesn't."?

3. Where does the story end?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the stranger Eddie meets in Chapter Eight so significant in his life?

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. What does Tala teach Eddie?

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

9. How does Eddie's father die?

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

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