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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why could Todd not understand how Colton could have gone to heaven?
(a) Because he is so young.
(b) Because he did not die.
(c) Because there is no such thing as heaven.
(d) Because he is alive.

2. What did Colton need immediately?
(a) Antibiotics.
(b) Emergency surgery.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) Radiation.

3. Usually he saw it where?
(a) In Children's hospitals.
(b) In a hospice situation.
(c) Private homes.
(d) At church.

4. Who is the Burpo family traveling to visit at the beginning of the book?
(a) Their cousin, Sarah.
(b) Their grandma, Rachel.
(c) Their uncle, Brian.
(d) Their nephew, Bennett.

5. They checked out the __________________ at the Butterfly Pavilion.
(a) Reptile Room.
(b) Amphibian Arcade.
(c) Tarantula Tower.
(d) Monkey Maze.

6. Back at the church, over ___________ people gathered together to pray for the family.
(a) Sixty.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Twenty.

7. What had been happening to Colton for five days?
(a) Cancer had been filling their son.
(b) Bacteria had been filling their son.
(c) Poison had been filling their son.
(d) The H1N1 virus had been filling their son.

8. Colton wasn't quite brave enough to hold who, but Cassie was?
(a) Reagan the Frog.
(b) Rosie the Spider.
(c) Rory the Monkey.
(d) Ronald the Turtle.

9. A radiologist told them that their son had what?
(a) H1N1.
(b) A ruptured spleen.
(c) A ruptured appendix.
(d) Influenza.

10. A nurse came in and called for Colton's parents. She said that he wouldn't do what?
(a) Calm down.
(b) Open his eyes.
(c) Cry.
(d) Talk.

11. Colton was unusually quiet and he complained that his tummy hurt. Why did they think this was because he ate something that did not agree with him?
(a) Kathy says she didn't feel well, either.
(b) The food did not taste very good.
(c) He was allergic to what he ate.
(d) They were all feel ill.

12. By the second afternoon of Colton's hospital stay, Todd walked into his son's room and saw what?
(a) Satan.
(b) A ghost.
(c) The shadow of death.
(d) Jesus.

13. The parents left their son how?
(a) Silent and sedated.
(b) Unconscious.
(c) Crying quietly.
(d) Screaming for them not to leave.

14. As his son was taken away, Todd felt as if he was going to lose it, and he had to do what?
(a) Get away by himself.
(b) Be with his wife.
(c) Sit and cry.
(d) Pray.

15. When talking about a funeral, why did Colton become quite distraught?
(a) He worries about the man's children.
(b) He worries the man did not have Jesus in his heart.
(c) He worries about his own death.
(d) He worries about the cost of the funeral.

Short Answer Questions

1. _____________ before they went to the Butterfly Pavilion, Colton had a stomachache.

2. Once when Colton was playing with a friend, he got in trouble for treating his friend poorly. When Todd reprimanded him, Colton told Todd what?

3. Did Todd tell them the complete story?

4. As they traveled through North Platte, they remembered how they spent a traumatic ______ days there, praying for Colton's survival.

5. Colton said that Jesus was the only one in heaven with what?

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