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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. What did Mr. Harvey's father do for a living?
(a) He never really had a reliable job or income.
(b) He was a jeweler.
(c) He worked on computers.
(d) He was a cobbler.

2. Who is Franny?
(a) Susie's imaginary friend.
(b) Susie's mother.
(c) Susie's counselor in heaven.
(d) Susie's sister.

3. Who is Artie?
(a) The soccer coach at the symposium.
(b) The teacher of Lindsey's symposium class.
(c) A boy from Lindsey's grade at the symposium.
(d) A boy from Susie's grade at the symposium.

4. What item did Mr. Harvey offer Susie to make her more comfortable in his secret room?
(a) A soda.
(b) A magazine.
(c) A stuffed animal.
(d) A coloring book.

5. What does Mr. Harvey do to keep himself from killing children?
(a) Tries to get himself committed to jail.
(b) Gets psychological help.
(c) Kills animals.
(d) Tries to get himself committed to a hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Ruth and Ray spend a lot of time talking about Susie?

2. What does Susie do when she sees her father break down in her room for the first time since her death?

3. Why is Ruth's mother pleased to find her daughter smoking in the shed?

4. Who observes Jack's surgery as he is sewn back together after being attacked in the cornfield?

5. Who is Grandma Lynn?

Short Essay Questions

1. After she tells of her own murder, what embarrassing story about Lindsey does Susie recall?

2. How do Buckley's family members respond when he mentions that he sees Susie all the time after her death?

3. When Samuel Heckler first meets the Salmon family, what does the reader learn about him?

4. What first makes Susie start to think that there might be other heavens other than just her own?

5. When was the last time Mr. Harvey saw his mother?

6. Why do Ray and Ruth decide Susie must be happier after her murder?

7. After Susie is murdered, what does Jack want desperately from his dead daughter?

8. Why does Jack become suspicious of Mr. Harvey's involvement in Susie's death?

9. How does Susie respond to Buckley's claim that he can see her ghost?

10. How is the reader supposed to interpret Lindsey's reaction to seeing Mr. Harvey at Susie's memorial?

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