Q 01/05

In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Eddie dies on his 83rd birthday trying to save a little girl from what?

A) A runaway carousel

B) A collapsing boardwalk

C) A falling cart

D) A snapped swing chain

Answer · why

C) A falling cart

A falling cart from a ride called Freddy's Free Fall crushes Eddie as he dives to push the girl clear. He reaches heaven not knowing whether he saved ...

Q 02/05

Mitch Albom wrote The Five People You Meet in Heaven after which bestselling memoir about his dying professor?

A) Tuesdays with Morrie

B) The Last Lecture

C) Angela's Ashes

D) When Breath Becomes Air

Answer · why

A) Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie made Albom famous in 1997, and he took six years to follow it with this, his first novel. He said the huge reception for the memo...

Q 03/05

In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, what does the Captain confess he did to Eddie during their wartime escape?

A) Left him behind

B) Stole his rations

C) Knocked him unconscious

D) Shot him in the leg

Answer · why

D) Shot him in the leg

Shot him in the leg is the confession: the Captain did it to stop Eddie running into a burning hut, which saved his life but left him with a lifelong ...

Q 04/05

In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, what did young Eddie chase into the road ahead of the Blue Man's car?

A) A stray dog

B) A baseball

C) A red kite

D) A toy hoop

Answer · why

B) A baseball

A baseball, a seventh-birthday present, sent Eddie into the road. The Blue Man swerved to miss him, and the fright brought on the heart attack that ki...

Q 05/05

In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, what is the name of Eddie's wife, the fourth person he meets?

A) Marguerite

B) Bernadette

C) Josephine

D) Antoinette

Answer · why

A) Marguerite

Marguerite teaches Eddie that love is not ended by death, only changed in form. He had lived without her for more than thirty years.