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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 sense about one's life does everyone feel?
(a) It takes place at the right time and place.
(b) Completeness.
(c) Perfection.
(d) Everyone views his life as having been lived incompletely.

2. What complicates Chris' passing?
(a) Ian's perception of his father.
(b) Ann's anger.
(c) Perry's seance.
(d) Wendy's letter.

3. To what is Ann resistant?
(a) The idea of hell.
(b) Perry's words.
(c) The minister's words.
(d) The idea that the cat can see Chris.

4. What has no meaning for Chris?
(a) Time.
(b) What is happening in his family's lives.
(c) Space.
(d) Anything.

5. Where does Leona offer to take Chris?
(a) To the next level up.
(b) To the next level down.
(c) To the House of Records.
(d) To look at Earth from space.

Short Answer Questions

1. What puts an even greater distance between Chris and his wife?

2. Why does Chris leave his wife?

3. What bothers Chris about Summerland?

4. To what does Ann reluctantly agree?

5. How do Albert and Chris communicate?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the main thing that bothers Chris about his death and subsequent life in Summerland?

2. What does Leona offer to do for Chris and do you think that it is wise?

3. What might give Chris hope for Ann for after she dies?

4. When Chris follows the sounds of Ann's sobbing, where does he end up?

5. What is the frame in which Chris' story is written?

6. What does Chris want to do at Summerland?

7. What recollection of Chris' may foreshadow the future for Ann?

8. What can Albert do and how would you feel about that?

9. Who does it seem that Chris can make some sort of connection with and who can he not seem to reach and why?

10. What happens when Chris gets to his home? Why do you think he doesn't realize he is dead?

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