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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 type of narration does The Lovely Bones display?
(a) Second person.
(b) Third person.
(c) None of these answers are correct.
(d) First person.

2. What gift does Samuel Heckler give Lindsey on the first Christmas after Susie's death?
(a) A book.
(b) Half a heart.
(c) A journal.
(d) A charm bracelet.

3. What does Lindsey do when she meets Mr. Harvey's eyes at the memorial service?
(a) Throws up.
(b) Starts screaming.
(c) Runs and attacks him.
(d) Faints.

4. Which piece had Susie always used in the board game the family plays at Christmas?
(a) The shoe.
(b) The hat.
(c) She never really had a preference.
(d) The red pieces.

5. When Susie was still alive, why is Ruth Connors reprimanded for her drawings in art class?
(a) Because she drew doodles the entire class period.
(b) Because she drew the models naked.
(c) Because she spent the time writing poetry.
(d) Because she drew the models as cartoons instead of serious people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack believe Mr. Harvey's late wife was called?

2. What kinds of people does Mr. Harvey dream about?

3. What does Mr. Harvey do to keep himself from killing children?

4. Who documents Lindsey and Samuel's budding relationship in a diary?

5. Who is Holly?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Lindsey and Ruth are up late talking about Susie at the symposium, what does Lindsey say her bad dreams are about?

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

4. What does Susie's heaven have?

5. How does Mr. Harvey react when Jack accuses him of being involved in his daughter's death?

6. Why does Grandma Lynn at first avoid Lindsey's questions about who her father suspects was involved in Susie's murder?

7. What does Jack's breaking of the ships in the bottle symbolize?

8. Why does Nate have such a hard time believing Buckley when he says he sees his sister's ghost?

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

10. How does Susie describe heaven?

(see the answer keys)

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