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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 Don wish as he lays in bed?

2. What did the paramedics do to Don's car?

3. What was the road like when it crossed the lake?

4. How is Don feeling emotionally as he is in the hospital?

5. What do the nurses clean Don's needle holes with everyday?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Iliazrov Frame and how is it used?

2. Why does Eva decide to limit the number of visitors Don sees a day?

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

4. What is Don thinking about a few days after the accident and the events surrounding it?

5. What is the conference Don attended focused upon?

6. What are the first injuries Don has that they fix immediately at the hospital?

7. What happens to Don on a daily or basis that leaves him in pain and exhausted?

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

9. What do the EMTs do when they arrive at the accident site and then when they've seen all the victims?

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

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 2

As Don describes heaven, the reader relaxes and time comes to a standstill. The reader begins to wonder about who will comprise his own heavenly welcoming committee.

1. Explain why you agree or disagree with the above statement.

2. Many people have claimed to have died and report many different scenarios. Why do you think this might be?

3. Describe what you would like to see and who you would like to see if you had been in Don's place.

Essay Topic 3

Despite the large number of visitors who come to see Don in the hospital, he refuses to let anyone do anything for him. One day, Jay Perkins stops by to visit Don. Jay is a retired minister filling in for Don. Jay notices that Don never asks for help and challenges him to open up to the people who care about him. Jay tells Don that people are trying to love him in the only way they know how, but Don will not let them.

1. How would the above statement relate to the cliche, "No man is an island?"

2. Why do you think Don is refusing help from anyone? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. People in general seem to believe that doing something for someone they love is showing their love. Do you think this is true? Why or why not?

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