EASY ROUND

1. Morrie is a professor of

a. Molecular Biology
b. Comparative Literature
c. Sociology
d. Psychology

Answer: Sociology

Chapter: The Second Tuesday We Talk About Feeling Sorry for Yourself

-It is my junior year, 1978, when disco and Rocky movies are the cultural rage. We are in an unusual
sociology class at Brandeis, something Morrie calls “Group Process.” Each week we study the ways in
which the students in the group interact with one another, how they respond to anger, jealousy,
attention. We are human lab rats. More often than not, someone ends up crying. I refer to it as the
“touchy –feely” course. Morrie says I should be more open-minded.

2. What is Mitch’s professional occupation?

a. A journalist
b. A newscaster
c. A musician
d. A Camera Man

Answer: Journalist

Chapter: The Student

“I bounced around from New York to Florida and eventually took a job in Detroit as a columnist for the
Detroit Free Press. The sports appetite in that city was insatiable—they had professional teams in
football, basketball, baseball, and hockey—and it matched my ambition. In a few years, I was not only
penning columns, I was writing sports books, doing radio shows, and appearing regularly on TV, spouting
my opinions on rich football players and hypocritical college sports programs. I was part of the media
thunderstorm that now soaks our country. I was in demand.

3. What Gloomy day of the week was Morrie’s funeral?

a. Sunday
b. Tuesday
c. Saturday
d. Friday

Answer: B

Chapter: Graduation

The funeral was held on a damp, windy morning. The grass was wet and the sky was the color of milk.
We stood by the hole in the earth, close enough to hear the pond water lapping against the edge and to
see ducks shaking off their feathers. Although hundreds of people had wanted to attend, Charlotte kept
this gathering small, just a few close friends and relatives. Rabbi Axelrod read a few poems. Morrie’s
brother, David—who still walked with a limp from his childhood polio lifted the shovel and tossed dirt in
the grave, as per tradition. At one point, when Morrie’s ashes were placed into the ground, I glanced
around the cemetery. Morrie was right. It was indeed a lovely spot, trees and grass and a sloping hill.
“You talk, I’ll listen, “he had said. I tried doing that in my head and, to my happiness, found that the
imagined conversation felt almost natural. I looked down at my hands, saw my watch and realized why.
It was Tuesday.

4. What does Mitch bring Morrie each week as a gift?

a. Copies of his favorite books

b. Food
c. Wine
d. Pasta

Answer: Food

Chapter: The First Tuesday We Talk About the World

Connie opened the door and let me in. Morrie was in his wheelchair by the kitchen table, wearing a
loose cotton shirt and even looser black sweatpants. They were loose because his legs had atrophied
beyond normal clothing size—you could get two hands around his thighs and have your fingers touch.
Had he been able to stand, he’d have been no more than five feet tall, and he’d probably have fit into a
sixth grader’s jeans. “I got you something,” I announced, holding up a brown paper bag. I had stopped
on my way from the airport at a nearby supermarket and purchased some turkey, potato salad,
macaroni salad, and bagels. I knew there was plenty of food at the house, but I wanted to contribute
something. I was so powerless to help Morrie otherwise. And I remembered his fondness for eating.

5. Who is the news anchor who interview Morrie for a television show?

a. Ted Koppel
b. Mitch Albom
c. Ted Mike
d. Ted Connie

Answer: A

Chapter: The Audiovisual

In March of 1995, a limousine carrying Ted Koppel, the host of ABC-TV’s “Nightline” pulled up to the
snow-covered curb outside Morrie’s house in West Newton, Massachusetts. Morrie was in a

AVERAGE ROUND

6. Who is Morrie’s favorite poet?

 a. Charles Bukowski
b. W.H Auden
c. W.H Olds
d. W.B Yeats

Answer: W.H Auden

Chapter: The Seventh Tuesday We Talk About the Fear o f Aging

“Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.” W.H. Auden, Morrie’s favorite poet

7. Morrie repeatedly tells Mitch that he must create his own

a. Norms
b. Laws
c. Life
d. Culture

Answer: Culture

Chapter: The Classroom

“Dying,” Morrie suddenly said, “is only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something
else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy.” Why? “Well, for one thing, the culture
we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We’re teaching the wrong things. And you
have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it. Create your own. Most people
can’t do it. They’re more unhappy than me—even in my current condition.

8. Mitch nicknames Morrie _____

a. Buddy
b. Friend
c. Mack
d. Coach

Answer: D

I finish that first course with him and enroll for another. He is an easy marker; he does not much care for
grades. One year, they say, during the Vietnam War, Morrie gave all his male students A’s to help them
keep their student deferments. I begin to call Morrie “Coach,” the way I used to address my high school
track coach. Morrie likes the nickname. “Coach,” he says. “All right, I’ll be your coach. And you can be
my player. You can play all the lovely parts of life that I’m too old for now.”

9. Morrie admits that he had thought that Ted Koppel as a

a. Narcissist
b. Great guy
c. Greedy celebrity
d. Bad guy

Answer: A
Chapter: A Professor’s Final Course: His Own Death

“Now let me ask you something,” Koppel said. “Have you ever seen my program?” Morrie shrugged.
“Twice, I think.” “Twice? That’s all?” “Don’t feel bad. I’ve only seen ‘Oprah’ once.” “Well, the two times
you saw my show, “Tuesdays with Morrie” By Mitch Albom 8 what did you think?” Morrie paused. “To
be honest?” “Yes?” “I thought you were a narcissist.” Koppel burst into laughter. “I’m too ugly to be a
narcissist,” he said.

10. Why, one year, does Morrie give all his male students A grades?

a. To spite the dean

b. To irritate the feminist
c. To prevent them from being drafted to serve in the Vietnam War
d. Because he believes that letter grades bear no meaning

Answer: C

Chapter: The Professor, Part Two

He came to Brandeis after his work in the mental health field, just before the sixties began. Within a few
years, the campus became a hotbed for cultural revolution. Drugs, sex, race, Vietnam protests. Abbie
Hoffman attended Brandeis. So did Jerry Rubin and Angela Davis. Morrie had many of the “radical”
students in his classes. That was partly because, instead of simply teaching, the sociology faculty got
involved. It was fiercely antiwar, for example. When the professors learned that students who did not
maintain a certain grade point average could lose their deferments and be drafted, they decided not to
give any grades. When the administration said, “If you don’t give these students grades, they will all
fail,” Morrie had a solution: “Let’s give them all A’s.” And they did.

HARD ROUND

11. If given the chance, Morrie would choose to be reincarnated as

a. Another version of himself

b. A gazelle
c. An ocean
d. A Musician

Answer: A gazelle

Chapter: The Sixth Tuesday We Talk About Emotions

Do you believe in reincarnation? I ask. “Perhaps.” What would you come back as? ‘If I had my choice, a
gazelle.” “A gazelle?” “Yes. So graceful. So fast.” “A gazelle?” Morrie smiles at me. “You think that’s
strange?” I study his shrunken frame, the loose clothes, the sockswrapped feet that rest stiffly on foam
rubber cushions, unable to move, like a prisoner in leg irons. I picture a gazelle racing across the desert.
No, I say. I don’t think that’s strange at all.
 12. What does Morrie mean by “Tension of opposites”

a. Love struggle against the hate

b. Life is like a wrestling match; love doesn’t win
c. Life is like a wrestling match; love always win
d. Love is a wrestling match

Answer: C

Chapter: The Classroom

“Have I told you about the tension of opposites?” he says. The tension of opposites? “Life is a series of
pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something
hurts you, yet you know it shouldn’t. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you
should never take anything for granted. “A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most
of us live somewhere in the middle. “ Sounds like a wrestling match, I say. “A wrestling match.” He
laughs. “Yes, you could describe life that way.” So which side wins, I ask? “Which side wins?” He smiles
at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth. “Love wins. Love always wins.”

13. Which of the following quotation can be found in the Book “Tuesday’s with Morrie”?

a. It is never too late or too soon, it is when it’s supposed to be

b. Why to hide something you been through?
c. Love is how you stay alive, even after you’re gone
d. It’s our choices makes who we are

Answer: C

Chapter: The Ninth Tuesday We Talk About How Love Goes On

What was the question? I asked. “If I worried about being forgotten after I died?” Well? Do you? “I don’t
think I will be. I’ve got so many people who have been involved with me in “Tuesdays with Morrie” By
Mitch Albom 39 close, intimate ways. And love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.” Sounds
like a song lyric—“love is how you stay alive.” Morrie chuckled. “Maybe. But, Mitch, all this talk that
we’re doing? Do you ever hear my voice sometimes when you’re back home? When you’re all alone?
Maybe on the plane? Maybe in your car?” Yes, I admitted. “Then you will not forget me after I’m gone.
Think of my voice and I’ll be there.”

14. How did Morrie hear of his Mother’s death?

a. He read the telegram notice that announced she had died

b. He received a letter from his father
c. His father told him when he arrived home from school
d. His father gently broke the news to him over dinner

Answer: A

Chapter: The Professor

He was eight years old. A telegram came from the hospital, and since his father, a Russian immigrant,
could not read English, Morrie had to break the news, reading his mother’s death notice like a student in
front of the class. “We regret to inform you …” he began

15. What gift does mitch give to Morrie after his graduation from Brandeis?

a. A cassette of tape of his favorite songs

b. A Pictured frame of them together
c. A monogrammed Briefcase
d. A copy of his published honors thesis with a brief case

Answer: C

Chapter: The Curriculum

It is the late spring of 1979, a hot, sticky Saturday afternoon. Hundreds of us sit together, side by side, in
rows of wooden folding chairs on the main campus lawn. We wear blue nylon robes. We listen
impatiently to long speeches. When the ceremony is over, we throw our caps in the air, and we are
officially graduated from college, the senior class of Brandeis University in the city of Waltham,
Massachusetts. For many of us, the curtain has just come down on childhood. Afterward, I find Morrie
Schwartz, my favorite professor, and introduce him to my parents. He is a small man who takes small
steps, as if a strong wind could, at any time, whisk him up into the clouds. In his graduation day robe, he
looks like a cross between a biblical prophet and a Christmas elf He has sparkling blue green eyes,
thinning silver hair that spills onto his forehead, big ears, a triangular nose, and tufts of graying
eyebrows. Although his teeth are crooked and his lower ones are slanted back—as if someone had once
punched them in—when he smiles it’s as if you’d just told him the first joke on earth. He tells my
parents how I took every class he taught. He tells them, “You have a special boy here. “Embarrassed, I
look at my feet. Before we leave, I hand my professor a present, a tan briefcase with his initials on the
front. I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn’t want to forget him. Maybe I didn’t want
him to forget me.

CLINCHER ROUND

16. What is Morrie’s favorite hobby?

a. Playing checkers
b. Watching movies
c. Reading books
d. Dancing

Answer: D

He had always been a dancer, my old professor. The music didn’t matter. Rock and roll, big band, the
blues. He loved them all. He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin to move to his own
sense of rhythm. It wasn’t always pretty. But then, he didn’t worry about a partner. Morrie danced by
himself.
 17. What does Morrie wanted to be on his tombstone?

A. The Sociologist
B. A teacher to the Last
C. The Patriot
D. An inspiration

Answer: B

Chapter: The Ninth Tuesday We Talk About How Love Goes On

“I decided what I wanted on my tombstone,” he said. I don’t want to hear about tombstones. “Why?
They make you nervous?” I shrugged. “We can forget it.” No, go ahead. What did you decide? Morrie
popped his lips. “I was thinking of this: A Teacher to the Last.” He waited while I absorbed it. A Teacher
to the Last. “Good?” he said. Yes, I said. Very good.

18. After surrendering to failure, Mitch gave up on his passion for

a. Dancing
b. Sociology
c. Music
d. Writing

Answer: Music

19. Morrie once said “… There is no such thing as ______________.”

a. Wrong in life
b. Too late in life
c. Faith in life
d. Culture in life

Answer: B

Chapter: Conclusions

I know I cannot do this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded. But if
Professor Morris Schwartz taught me anything at all, it was this: there is no such thing as “too late” in
life. He was changing until the day he said good-bye. Not long after Morrie’s death, I reached my brother
in Spain. We had a long talk. I told him I respected his distance, and that all I wanted was to be in
touch—in the present, not just the past—to hold him in my life as much as he could let me.

20. What television show features a series of interviews with Morrie?

a. Dateline
b. Midnight line
c. Twenty/20
d. Nightline
Answer: D

Chapter: The Audiovisual

The Audiovisual In March of 1995, a limousine carrying Ted Koppel, the host of ABC-TV’s “Nightline”
pulled up to the snow-covered curb outside Morrie’s house in West Newton, Massachusetts.
EASY ROUND

1. Where does Eddie spend the last hour of his Life?

a. Ruby World
b. Ruby Pier
c. Ruby Amusement Park
d. Ruby playground

Answer: B

Chapter: The End

Eddie felt his eyes dart beneath his lids. Over the years, he had come to know every noise at Ruby Pier
and could sleep through them all like a lullaby.

2. Who is the third person that Eddie meets in heaven?

a. Ruby
b. His Wife
c. The Blue Man
d. Mickey Shea

Answer: C

Chapter: The Third Person Eddie Meets in Heaven

"Are you . . . my third person?" "I am at that," she said. Eddie rubbed his head. Who was this woman? At
least with the Blue Man, at least with the Captain, he had some recollection of their place in his life.
Why a stranger? Why now? Eddie had once hoped death would mean a reunion with those who went
before him. He had attended so many funerals, polishing his black dress shoes, finding his hat, standing
in a cemetery with the same despairing question: Why are they gone and I'm still here? His mother. His
brother. His aunts and uncles. His buddy Noel. Marguerite. "One day," the priest would say, "we will all
be together in the Kingdom of Heaven." Where were they, then, if this was heaven? Eddie studied this
strange older woman. He felt more alone than ever. "Can I see Earth?" he whispered. She shook her
head no. "Can I talk to God?" "You can always do that." He hesitated before asking the next question.
"Can I go back?" She squinted. "Back?" "Yeah, back," Eddie said. "To my life. To that last day. Is there
something I can do? Can I promise to be good? Can I promise to go to church all the time? Something?"
"Why?" She seemed amused. "Why?" Eddie repeated. He swiped at the snow that had no cold, with the
bare hand that felt no moisture. "Why? Because this place don't make no sense to me. Because I don't
feel like no angel, if that's what I'm supposed to feel like. Because I don't feel like I got it all figured out. I
can't even remember my own death. I can't remember the accident. All I remember are these two little
hands—this little girl I was trying to save, see? I was pulling her out of the way and I must've grabbed
her hands and that's when I . . ." He shrugged. "Died?" the old woman said, smiling. "Passed away?
Moved on? Met your Maker?" 65 "Died," he said, exhaling. "And that's all I remember. Then you, the
others, all this. Ain't you supposed to have peace when you die?" "You have peace," the old woman
said, "when you make it with yourself." "Nah," Eddie said, shaking his head. "Nah, you don't." He
thought about telling her the agitation he'd felt every day since the war, the bad dreams, the inability to
get excited about much of anything, the times he went to the docks alone and watched the fish pulled in
by the wide rope nets, embarrassed because he saw himself in those helpless, flopping creatures,
snared and beyond escape. He didn't tell her that. Instead he said, "No offense, lady, but I don't even
know you." "But I know you," she said. Eddie sighed. "Oh yeah? How's that?" "Well," she said, "if you
have a moment." SHE SAT DOWN then, although there was nothing to sit on. She simply rested on the
air and crossed her legs, ladylike, keeping her spine straight. The long skirt folded neatly around her. A
breeze blew, and Eddie caught the faint scent of perfume. "As I mentioned, I was once a working girl.
My job was serving food in a place called the Seahorse Grille. It was near the ocean where you grew up.
Perhaps you remember it?" She nodded toward the diner, and it all came back to Eddie. Of course. That
place. He used to eat breakfast there. A greasy spoon, they called it. They'd torn it down years ago.
"You?" Eddie said, almost laughing. "You were a waitress at the Seahorse?" "Indeed," she said, proudly.
"I served dockworkers their coffee and longshoremen their crab cakes and bacon. "I was an attractive
girl in those years, I might add. I turned away many a proposal. My sisters would scold me. 'Who are you
to be so choosy?' they would say. 'Find a man before it's too late.' "Then one morning, the finest-looking
gentleman I had ever seen walked through the door. He wore a chalk-stripe suit and a derby hat. His
dark hair was neatly cut and his mustache covered a constant smile. 66 He nodded when I served him
and I tried not to stare. But when he spoke with his colleague, I could hear his heavy, confident laughter.
Twice I caught him looking in my direction. When he paid his bill, he said his name was Emile and he
asked if he might call on me. And I knew, right then, my sisters would no longer have to hound me for a
decision. "Our courtship was exhilarating, for Emile was a man of means. He took me places I had never
been, bought me clothes I had never imagined, paid for meals I had never experienced in my poor,
sheltered life. Emile had earned his wealth quickly, from investments in lumber and steel. He was a
spender, a risk taker—he went over the boards when he got an idea. I suppose that is why he was drawn
to a poor girl like me. He abhorred those who were born into wealth, and rather enjoyed doing things
the 'sophisticated people' would never do. "One of those things was visiting seaside resorts. He loved
the attractions, the salty food, the gypsies and fortune-tellers and weight guessers and diving girls. And
we both loved the sea. One day, as we sat in the sand, the tide rolling gently to our feet, he asked for my
hand in marriage. "I was overjoyed. I told him yes and we heard the sounds of children playing in the
ocean. Emile went over the boards again and swore that soon he would build a resort park just for me,
to capture the happiness of this moment—to stay eternally young." The old woman smiled. "Emile kept
his promise. A few years later, he made a deal with the railroad company, which was looking for a way
to increase its riders on the weekend. That's how most amusement parks were built, you know." Eddie
nodded. He knew. Most people didn't. They thought amusement parks were constructed by elves, built
with candy canes. In fact, they were simply business opportunities for railroad companies, who erected
them at the final stops of routes, so commuters would have a reason to ride on weekends, You know
where I work? Eddie used to say. The end of the line. That's where I work. "Emile," the old woman
continued, "built the most wonderful place, a massive pier using timber and steel he already owned.
Then came the magical attractions—races and rides and boat trips and tiny railways. There was a
carousel imported from France and a Ferris wheel from one of the international exhibitions in Germany.
There were towers and spires and thousands of incandescent lights, so bright that at night, you could
see the park from a ship's deck on the ocean. 67 "Emile hired hundreds of workers, municipal workers
and carnival workers and foreign workers. He brought in animals and acrobats and clowns. The entrance
was the last thing finished, and it was truly grand. Everyone said so. When it was complete, he took me
there with a cloth blindfold over my eyes. When he removed the blindfold, I saw it." The old woman
took a step back from Eddie. She looked at him curiously, as if she were disappointed. "The entrance?"
she said. "Don't you remember? Didn't you ever wonder about the name? Where you worked? Where
your father worked?" She touched her chest softly with her white-gloved fingers. Then she dipped, as if
formally introducing herself. "I," she said, "am Ruby."

3. What is Eddie’s age at the time of his death?

a. 75
b. 82
c. 83
d. 80

Answer: C

Chapter: The end

WITH 50 MINUTES left on earth, Eddie took his last walk along Ruby Pier. He passed an elderly couple.
"Folks," he mumbled, touching his cap. They nodded politely. Customers knew Eddie. At least the
regular ones did. They saw him summer after summer, one of those faces you associate with a place. His
work shirt had a patch on the chest that read EDDIE above the word MAINTENANCE, and sometimes
they would say, "Hiya, Eddie Maintenance," although he never thought that was funny. Today, it so
happened, was Eddie's birthday, his 83rd. A doctor, last week, had told him he had shingles. Shingles?
Eddie didn't even know what they were. Once, he had been strong enough to lift a carousel horse in
each arm. That was a long time ago.

4. What is the name of Eddie’s true love?

a. Ruby
b. Marguerite
c. Margaret-Ann
d. Maria Margaret

Answer: B

5. What is the Blue Man’s real name?

a. Eddie de Falco
b. Dominguez
c. Mickey Joseph Corvelzchik
d. Joseph Corvelzchik

Answer: D

Chapter: The First Person Eddie Meets in Heaven

"Let me begin with my real name," the Blue Man said. "I was christened Joseph Corvelzchik, the son of a
tailor in a small Polish village. We came to America in 1894. I was only a boy. My mother held me over
the railing of the ship and this became my earliest childhood memory, my mother swinging me in the
breezes of a new world.
AVERAGE ROUND

6. Each person Eddie meets after his death tells him the reason for one section of his life. What
lesson did the Blue Man give Eddie?

a. What comes around goes around

b. No life is a waste
c. Time is gold
d. Cherish the ones you’re with

Answer: B

Chapter: The First Lesson

The Blue Man did not answer. Eddie slumped. "Then my death was a waste, just like my life." "No life is
a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."

7. According to the Blue Man, what is the greatest gift that God can give?

a. Repenting one’s sins

b. Experiencing Heaven
c. Understands one’s life
d. Meeting one’s greatest love

Answer: C

Chapter: The First Person Eddie Meets in Heaven

THERE ARE FIVE people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life
for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For
understanding your life on earth." Eddie looked confused. "People think of heaven as a paradise garden,
a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is
meaningless. "This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To
have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for."

8. During his escape from captivity Eddie was shot in the leg when he seemed to become hysterical
and try to enter the building that he had just set alight. Who shot him?

a. The Blue Man

b. Japanese Guard
c. Dominguez
d. The Captain

Answer: D

Chapter:

The Captain, and one of the surviving squad members, tried to stop Eddie entering the burning building
and had to shoot Eddie in the leg to stop what looked like Eddie's suicide attempt. However what the
Captain, and the other squad member, didn't know was Eddie thought he had seen someone moving in
the building and was trying to get them out.
Eddie had a limp from then on until he died and was not happy with the Captain for shooting him.

9. How did the captain die?

a. Stepped on a landmine
b. Starvation
c. Shot by a Japanese Guard
d. Malaria

Answer: A

Chapter: The Second Person Eddie Meets in Heaven

After escaping the mine the survivors had stolen a truck and drove away. Upon coming to a closed gate
the Captain got out of the truck to check for enemy activity and to open the gate. Ordering his men to
stay in the truck he stated that he would check the road ahead for any enemy soldiers. As he walked
down the road he stepped on a landmine, detonating it, and dying. Eddie at the time was unconscious in
the truck and therefore never knew how the Captain died.

10. Where did Eddie find Marguerite?

a. In a world, full of weddings

b. In a world made of chocolate
c. In a world of children
d. Alone in a Void

Answer: C

Chapter: The Fourth Person Eddie Meets in Heaven

Eddie squeezes. Marguerite grabs her ears. "It's louder than your snoring," she says. "Whoa-ho!" Joe
yells, laughing. "Whoa-ho! She got you!" Eddie looks down sheepishly, then sees bis wife smiling. "Can
you come outside?" she says. Eddie waves the drill. "I'm working here." "Just for a minute, OK?" Eddie
stands up slowly, then follows her out the door. The sun hits his face. "HAP-PY BIRTH-DAY, MR. ED-DIE!"
a group of children scream in unison. "Well, I'll be," Eddie says. Marguerite yells, "OK, kids, put the
candles on the cake!" The children race to a vanilla sheet cake sitting on a nearby folding table.
Marguerite leans toward Eddie and whispers, "I promised them you'd blow out all thirty-eight at once."
Eddie snorts. He watches his wife organize the group. As always with Marguerite and children, his mood
is lifted by her easy connection to them and dampened by her inability to bear them. One doctor said
she was too nervous. Another said she had waited too long, she should have had them by age 25. In
time, they ran out of money for doctors. It was what it was.

HARD ROUND

11. What did Tala say to Eddie that caused him such consternation?
 A. You burn me
B. You are my father
C. You will go to hell
D. You betrayed me

Answer: A

Chapter: The last lesson

During the escape from the mine Eddie and his squad had torched the buildings surrounding the mine.
Eddie had seen something move in the building that he had set on fire. Before he entered the burning
building he was shot by the Captain and placed in the truck and taken away. What Eddie, and the others,
didn't know was that there was a little girl, Tala, in the burning building and it was she who Eddie
thought he saw move. Tala perished in that fire.

12. What lesson was Tala to teach Eddie?

A. All’s well that ends well

B. That he is not alone
C. That he must repent his sins
D. Eddie made up for tala’s death by working at the unfair

Answer: D

Chapter: The last lesson

By being the maintenance man at the funfair for most of his adult life Eddie had atoned for Tal's death
even though he did not know he was doing that.
"Children," she said. "You keep them safe. You make good for me."

13. What is the cause of Marguerite’s death?

a. A tumor on the brain

b. She drowned at the unfair
c. She was murdered
d. A car accident

Answer: A

Chapter: The Fourth Person Eddie Meets in Heaven

About three years after the car accident Eddie finds Marguerite unconscious on the kitchen floor. The
doctors' diagnosis is a tumour on the brain and she is told to go home and "put her affairs in order."

14. When he arrives in heaven what does Eddie notice is missing?

a. His scars
b. His clothes
c. His pain
d. His arms
Answer: C

Chapter: The Journey

Where is my pain? That was what was missing. Every hurt he'd ever suffered, every ache he'd ever
endured—it was all as gone as an expired breath. He could not feel agony. He could not feel sadness. His
consciousness felt smoky, wisplike, incapable of anything but calm. Below him now, the colors changed
again. Something was swirling. Water. An ocean. He was floating over a vast yellow sea. Now it turned
melon. Now it was sapphire. Now he began to drop, hurtling toward the surface. It was faster than
anything he'd ever imagined, yet there wasn't as much as a breeze on his face, and he felt no fear. He
saw the sands of a golden shore.

15. The blue Man claims that Eddie _______, but Eddie does not believe him at first.

a. Got him fired from his first job

b. Is still alive
c. Killed him
d. Betrayed him

Answer: C

Chapter: The First Person Eddie Meets in Heaven

Eddie pushed a sound up from his chest, as hard as he could. "What . . ." he finally croaked. His voice
seemed to be breaking through a shell, like a baby chick. "What . . . killed . . ." The Blue Man waited
patiently. "What . . . killed . . . you?" The Blue Man looked a bit surprised. He smiled at Eddie. 21 "You
did," he said.

CLINCHER ROUND

16. What lesson does ruby teach Eddie about life?

a. Don’t get angry get even

b. Honesty
c. Forgiveness
d. Patience

Answer: A

Chapter: The Third Lesson

Ruby stepped toward him. "Edward," she said softly. It was the first time she had called him by name.
"Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon
that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to
ourselves. "Forgive, Edward. Forgive. Do you remember the lightness you felt when you first arrived in
heaven?" Eddie did. Where is my pain? "That's because no one is born with anger. And when we die, the
soul is freed of it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did,
and why you no longer need to feel it." She touched his hand. "You need to forgive your father."

17. The last person that Eddie meets is a young girl. What is her name?

a. Ruby
b. Mickey
c. Tala
d. Amy

Answer: C

Chapter: The Last Lesson

THE LITTLE GIRL APPEARED TO BE ASIAN, maybe five or six years old, with a beautiful cinnamon
complexion, hair the color of a dark plum, a small flat nose, full lips that spread joyfully over her gapped
teeth, and the most arresting eyes, as black as a seal's hide, with a pinhead of white serving as a pupil.
She smiled and flapped her hands excitedly until Eddie edged one step closer, whereupon she presented
herself. "Tala," she said, offering her name, her palms on her chest. "Tala," Eddie repeated.

18. What did Tala ask Eddie to do?

a. To sing for her

b. To wash her
c. To go away
d. To hug her

Answer: B

Chapter: The Last Lesson

AT SOME POINT, when his anguish had quieted, Eddie felt a tapping on his shoulder. He looked up to see
Tala holding out a stone. "You wash me," she said. She stepped into the water and turned her back to
Eddie. Then she pulled the embroidered baro over her head. He recoiled. Her skin was horribly burned.
Her torso and narrow shoulders were black and charred and blistered. When she turned around, the
beautiful, innocent face was covered in grotesque scars. Her lips drooped. Only one eye was open. Her
hair was gone in patches of burned scalp, covered now by hard, mottled scabs. 109 "You wash me," she
said again, holding out the stone.

19. What lesson did the Captain have to gave to Eddie about his life?

A. War is evil
B. There is honour in serving your country
C. You connate outrun death
D. Sacrifice is a Part of life

Answer: D

Chapter: Second Lesson

"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.
Little sacrifices, Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to
take care of a sick father."

"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're passing it on to
someone else."

The Captain sacrificed his life so that his squad could stay alive and go home; he had kept his promise to
not leave them behind.

20. What lesson was Marguerite teaching Eddie?

a. Life goes on after death

b. Lost love is still love
c. Death is the end
d. That she had moved on after death

Answer: B

Chapter: The fourth lesson

Marguerite had died at 47 years of age and Eddie was very angry at her passing. Marguerite explains
that although she had passed away she never left Eddie. "Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different
form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around
the dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your
partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.
Life has to end, love doesn't."

Even in heaven Marguerite could feel that Eddie still loved her.