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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Eddie feel about his life without Marguerite?

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

3. Who finally leads Eddie to Heaven?

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

5. With whom does Eddie's father die?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ruby know all of the details of Eddie's father?

2. Explain Ruby's lesson to Eddie.

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

4. What does Tala teach Eddie?

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

6. How do Eddie's actions on his thirty-ninth birthday contribute to Marguerite's accident?

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

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

9. What does Marguerite teach Eddie in Heaven?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the fact that Eddie still worked at the Pier at age eighty-three. Next, recall Eddie's relationship with his father and his brother. Using facts from the novel, write an essay where Eddie's father and Eddie's brother are two of the people Eddie meets in Heaven. What lessons would they teach Eddie? How might their interactions play out?

Essay Topic 2

Mitch Albom introduces silence as an effective symbol several times throughout the novel. Identify three different instances where silence is employed, and explain why its use is so effective. Make sure to cite your references.

Essay Topic 3

The Blue Man tells Eddie, "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind." (p. 48, ll. 1-3) Show how this quote is one of the main lessons throughout the novel. Be sure to cite at least three specific examples and connect them back to the quote.

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