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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. Who restores peace to Eddie's household in Chapter Five?

2. What does Eddie do, just because he can, in Chapter Three?

3. How does Eddie feel when he wakes up?

4. What happens to the Freddie Fall car?

5. Where does the reader learn that Eddie and three other soldiers are being held?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Albom reveal the relationship between Joe and Eddie in Chapter Four?

2. The Captain tells Eddie that dying is only the beginning. What could the Captain mean by this statement?

3. Why is it significant that Eddie's body feels like that of a child when he first meets the Blue Man?

4. What is the significance, or lack of significance, of time in Heaven?

5. In Chapter Seven, how does Mitch Albom use suspense to propel the action?

6. Before Eddie speaks to the little girl at the park, about what/whom was he daydreaming?

7. What is Eddie's role in the death of the Blue Man?

8. Discuss Eddie's encounter with the first character he meets in Heaven, the Blue Man.

9. Eddie no longer feels any pain. Why might his loss of pain be significant to being in Heaven?

10. Discuss the significance of the title of Chapter Three, "The Arrival".

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about the concept of Heaven. What is your idea of Heaven? What was Eddie's expectation, before meeting the Blue Man? How does Eddie's actual journey through Heaven compare to your own thoughts of such a place?

Essay Topic 2

Mitch Albom effectively uses his own experiences with relatives to create Eddie and his other characters. Draw connections between the people in Albom's life and those in Eddie's life. Write an essay paralleling the similarities and contrasting the differences.

Essay Topic 3

Mitch Albom tells the story of Eddie by using many effective literary devices. How does his use of flashback, foreshadowing, and suspense propel the novel?

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