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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 does Chris now comprehend?

2. What complicates Chris' passing?

3. What can Chris learn from the place Leona is taking him?

4. What are the masterpieces on Earth?

5. What raiment does Albert don?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who greets Chris and what do you think of the situation?

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

3. What do you think about what Albert tells Chris about thoughts?

4. Describe Chris' first moments after he awakens in Summerland.

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

6. Where does Leona take Chris and why can't he seem to enjoy it?

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

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

9. What does Chris want to do at Summerland?

10. What does Chris learn at the Office of Records and how does he react? Why do you think he reacts in such a way?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Much of this story centers around obsession. Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze Chris's obsession for helping Ann throughout the story. Discuss fully with examples.

2. Trace and analyze Ann's obsession about Chris throughout the story. Discuss fully with examples.

3. What lessons can be learned for your own life in looking at how obsession manifests and impacts people in this story?

Essay Topic 2

There is still a great deal of human frailty and foibles in Summerland. Summerland is a place where souls that dwell there must grow, face their problems and solve them, and must not see their reflections in mirrors for fear of losing heart at their imperfections. Discuss the following:

1. If the only way a soul can see its imperfections is in a mirror, which is why there are no mirrors, then how does a soul know what its imperfections are?

2. How can a mirror reflect spiritual imperfections? Do you think the implication is that the body one creates to "wear" in Summerland reflects one's spiritual imperfections?

3. How would you feel if when you looked into a mirror you not only saw your physical body (and its imperfections as you perceive them), but also saw your emotional/spiritual imperfections? Would you look in a mirror less or more than you do now?

Essay Topic 3

Often someone who is dying will suddenly die when a loved one has left the room momentarily. Many believe that the grief of the loved one holds the person there and it is only when that loved one is out of the room that the person "slips away." Discuss the following:

1. Do you believe either negative or positive emotions of a loved one can hinder a person from dying? Explain fully.

2. Do you believe either negative or positive emotions of a dying person can hinder the person from letting go and dying? Explain fully.

3. How do you think is the most positive way a loved one can act when holding a bedside vigil of a dying person?

4. Do you think Ann acted in ways that made it easy for Chris to leave his body?

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