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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. What is the lesson in Chapter Eleven?

2. How does Eddie spend his last birthday?

3. What literary device is used when discussing the accident that occurs at another park?

4. Why was Eddie sad when he was living?

5. What happens between Eddie and his father?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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. What does Tala teach Eddie?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Eddie learns that his life has helped to save the lives of many others. How might the five people Eddie meets in Heaven be impacted if Eddie had NOT been involved in their lives? Discuss how the Blue Man, Tala, Amy or Annie, Marguerite, and Ruby might have entirely different lives if it were not for Eddie.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

In most novels, minor characters are simply used to assist the plot. In THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN, however, Albom uses minor characters to more profoundly impact his protagonist. Discuss how Mickey Shea, Eddie's father, and Ruby are essential to move the plot along.

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