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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 was the vehicle that hit Don's car carrying?

2. How does Dick get in the car to lay hands on Don?

3. What kind of papers does Eva sign the morning after his night in ICU?

4. Who was driving the vehicle that hit Don?

5. What do the nurses tell him about the patients Don keeps hearing moan and scream?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Don feeling in the hospital and who tries to help him?

2. Where does Don go after his first surgeries?

3. Where does Don go after he leaves the accident scene?

4. What does Don not experience and what does he experience when he dies?

5. How do the people around Don appear?

6. What does Don see when he first arrives in heaven?

7. Who was driving the vehicle that hit Don, what was it carrying and why was that driver driving the vehicle?

8. Who are Dick and Anita and what did they do as they were driving home?

9. What does one of the EMTs tell Dick and what does he do?

10. What does Jay Perkins tell Don about his independent attitude?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The boys respect the fact that Don cannot run and play like he once did and do their best to shelter their father from any disappointment by not engaging in sports with him.

1. Why do you think the boys decided to not engage in any sports with him? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Do you think the boys should have handled sports in a different manner? Why or why not?

3. Do you think Don appreciated his sons not participating in sports with him or did it make him feel worse? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Don still struggles with the question of why? He questions why he was in the accident, why he was allowed to glimpse heaven and why he had to come back; in short, he questions everything. Don has no answers to any of his questions. His lack of answers makes writing his story extremely difficult.

1. Why do you think Don still struggles with the why of his whole ordeal? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Why do you think Don might have been allowed to glimpse heaven and then come back? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Why do you think Don's lack of answers make writing his story difficult?

Essay Topic 3

Dick's wife, Anita, leans over to Don and whispers that Dick never held Don's hand. Don stares at her in disbelief as Anita explains how Dick had to squeeze through the trunk and was barely able to reach Don's shoulder. Don's hand was laying on the passenger side door and there was no possible way Dick could have reached it. Don realizes that the hand he felt holding him tightly was an angel's. Don realizes that even when he does not feel it, that hand is always there supporting Don as he moves through life.

1. Do you think Don was hallucinating someone holding his hand? Why or why not?

2. Do you think Dick's wife should have told Don the truth about where Dick was? Why or why not?

3. Do you think it was an angel holding Don's hand when he woke? Why or why not?

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