5 People You Meet in Heaven Exam

Question 1

Dramatic Irony

Answer 1

When the reader knows something the character doesn’t

Question 2

Mood

Answer 2

A feeling the reader gets while reading the story

Question 3

Tone

Answer 3

A particular attitude a character has

Question 4

Characterization

Answer 4

The way an author creates a character

Question 5

Flashback

Answer 5

When a story is interrupted to re-create an earlier event

Question 6

Where does the reader first meet Eddie?

Answer 6

In Ruby Pier with Eddie dying in the sun

Question 7

What does Eddie do for a living? Where?

Answer 7

He makes sure the roller coasters and attractions are safe/he works at Ruby Pier

Question 8

How does the reader first imagine Ruby Pier?

Answer 8

They imagine it as a regular amusement park

Question 9

What is the significance of the day for Eddie in ch 1?

Answer 9

It was his 83rd birthday/the day he dies

Question 10

What is the overall mood in the beginning of the story as relates to Eddie’s life?

Answer 10

The overall mood was somber

Question 11

What does the author mean when he says that Marguerite is Eddie’s true love snapshot?

Answer 11

He means that Marguerite is Eddie’s true love in his life

Question 12

Mitch Albom states that there are no random acts, that everything is connected. How is the teenager losing his car keys connected to Eddie?

Answer 12

The car key was wedged in the mechanism of the ride causing it to fall —-> Eddie dying

Question 13

How does the author describe Eddie’s last moments prior to Eddie beginning his journey in heaven?

Question 14

As Eddie begins his journey in ch 2 where does he find himself?

Answer 14

He finds himself in an old tea cup ride at Ruby Pier 75 years ago from his childhood

Question 15

Who does he find in the freak show?

Answer 15

He finds a middle aged man, the Blue Man

Question 16

What does the Blue Man explain to Eddie about his journey in heaven? Why are they there to meet him, what must they do to move on?

Answer 16

He explains that Eddie will go through 5 stages in heaven where he will meet 5 people that had either an impact on his life or he had an impact on theirs. They are there to teach him lessons and they must have Eddie learn something for them to move on.

Question 17

What does Eddie see/hear when he wakes in heaven? What can’t he do?

Answer 17

Eddie hears a voice from a megaphone coming from the freak house, he follows the voice and then sees a blue man, he later finds out he can’t talk

Question 18

How does Eddie feel physically when he wakes up in heaven?

Answer 18

He feels healthy and could run/jump without any pain

Question 19

What is the significance of the relationship between Eddie and his first person?

Answer 19

The Blue Man informs Eddie that when he was very young, he caused a car accident that killed the Blue Man

Question 20

Why is the Blue Man blue?

Answer 20

This is b/c he took a poison called silver nitrate to be less nervous or to calm his nerves down

Question 21

When Eddie asks the Blue Man how long has he been dead the Blue Man response “a minute, hour, years” What does the answer suggest to the reader about time?

Answer 21

It suggests that time is non - existent in heaven

Question 22

Explain what the Blue Man meant when he told Eddie “We’er all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another then you can separate a breeze from the wind.

Answer 22

He means that Eddie’s life is connected to the lives of every person he meets in heaven

Question 23

What is the lesson that the Blue Man teaches Eddie?

Answer 23

There are no random acts, we are all connected

Question 24

What is Eddie’s reaction to meeting his second person in heaven, his Captain who served with him in the war?

Answer 24

He is surprised b/c seeing Captain was unexpected

Question 25

What does Captain tell Eddie about his injured knee that makes Eddie furious?

Answer 25

The captain tells Eddie how he shot him in the leg

Question 26

As we review Eddie’s time in the war, what do Eddie and the other soldiers have to do while they’re in prison?

Answer 26

They had to work at a coal mine for the Japanese soldiers

Question 27

What talent does Eddie have that eventually helps them escaping prison?

Answer 27

Juggling

Question 28

What do Eddie and the soldiers do before finally escaping?

Answer 28

They burn the Japanese camp down

Question 29

Explain the meaning of the Captains quote “When you sacrifice something precious, you don’t actually lose it. You’re just passing it on to someone else.”?

Answer 29

The captain means that when we sacrifice something for others, it isn’t a waste, but instead helps the person

Question 30

What happens to the Captain during the escape?

Answer 30

He dies from a land mine

Question 31

What does the captain tell Eddie his heaven his like? Why do their eyes see it so differently?

Answer 31

The captain says his heaven is how the world was like before there was war and because Eddie hasn’t yet come to terms with his experiences there

Question 32

What is a lesson that the Captain teaches Eddie?

Answer 32

Sacrifice is apart of life and when we sacrifice for someone it helps them

Question 33

What does the captain receive from Eddie that allows him to move on?

Answer 33

Forgiveness from Eddie for shooting him in the leg