Summer Reading Grade 7

Summer Reading Assignment

Book: The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Summer Reading Assessment
Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.1;CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.3; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.7.1
Directions: Read each question and choose the best answer. Make sure to cite your answer. Example: Answer:B Cite Answer: Page 12
 
1. The premise of this book is that when you die you will meet five people who will explain your life to you before you can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Eddie, the main character, makes an animal out of pipe cleaners for someone at the start of the book. Who is he/she?
            A. Morton
            B. Marguerite
            C. Dominguez
            D. Amy
2. The Blue Man is the first person that Eddie meets after he dies. What was the Blue Man's real name?
     A. Joseph Corvelzchik
     B. Emile
     C. Dominguez
     D. Mickey
 
3. 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. See a penny pick it up all day long you'll have good luck.
     D. Cherish the ones you're with.
 
4. The second person that Eddie meets is "The Captain", his commander during the Second World War. Where was he located when Eddie came to him?
     A. In a foxhole
     B. Up a tree
     C. In a bunker
     D. In a tank
 
 
5. When Eddie and the Captain had been captured in the Philippines, where were they sent as prisoners of war?
     A. The Burma railway
     B. A coal mine
     C. Prison ship
     D. They were repatriated
 
6. 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. Dominguez
     B. The Captain
     C. The Blue Man
     D. Japanese guard
 
7. How did the Captain die?
     A. Shot by a Japanese guard
     B. Malaria
     C. Starvation
     D. Stepped on a landmine
 
8. What lesson did the Captain have to give to Eddie about his life?
     A. War is evil.
     B. There is honor in serving your country.
     C. You cannot outrun death.
     D. Sacrifice is a part of life.
 
9. Ruby is the next person that Eddie meets. Though he has never met her, what is the connection between them?
     A. She is his mother
     B. The funfair at the pier
     C. She is his long lost sister
     D. He saved her life
 
 
 
 
 
10. Ruby shows Eddie his relationship with his parents, especially his father. His father ended his life in the hospital. What action precipitated his going  the hospital?
     A. He had a stroke while working on the Dodgems
     B. He was in a car accident
     C. His wife's lover attacked him
     D. Eddie's father's best friend, Mickey, tried to rape Eddie's mother
 
11. What lesson does Ruby teach Eddie about life?
     A. Honesty is the best policy
     B. Forgiveness
     C. Self-respect
     D. Don't get angry get even
 
12. The fourth person he met was the one person he truly loved: Marguerite, his wife. Where did he find her?
            A. Alone in a void
     B. In a world of children
     C. In a world full of weddings
     D. In a world made of chocolate
 
13. During her life Marguerite was involved in a car accident. What caused the accident?
     A.   A slight heart attack
     B.   A red setter running across the road in front of her
     C.   A bottle of old Harpers whiskey
     D.   A tire blow-out
 
14. What was the cause of Marguerite's death?
     A. She was murdered
     B. A car accident
     C. She drowned at the funfair
     D. A tumor on the brain
 
 
 
 
15. What lesson was Marguerite teaching Eddie?
     A. That she had moved on after death
 
            B. Life goes on after death
     C. Lost love is still love
     D. Death is the end
 
16. The next, and last person, that Eddie meets is a young girl. What is her name?
     A. Ruby
            B. Tala
     C. Marguerite
     D. Amy
 
17. What did Tala say to Eddie that caused him such consternation?
     A. "You will go to hell"
     B. "You betrayed me"
     C. "You are my father"
     D. "You burn me"
 
18. What did Tala ask Eddie to do?
     A. To wash her
     B. To go away
     C. To beg for forgiveness
     D. To make her a dog from pipe cleaners
 
19. 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 funfair
 
 
 
 
 
20. Eddie asked the same question to each of the five people he met. What was the question he repeatedly asked?
     A. "Am I going to enter heaven?"
     B. "Am I forgiven?"
     C. "Am I really dead?"
     D. "The little girl at the pier. Did I save her?"
 
Written Responses:
Answer each question. Response must be a minimum of 1 FULL page and maximum of 2 full pages. Writing conventions; {grammar, spelling, punctuation...etc.} Use R.A.C.E.S (Type your answer)
Prompt 1: Why do you think Albom withholds the truth about whether Eddie was able to save "Amy or Annie" until the end of the novel? What effect does this decision have on the plot? Provide 3 details to support your answer.
Prompt 2: At the start of The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Albom says that "all endings are also beginnings." In general, what does this mean? How does it relate to this story in particular? Provide 3 details to support your claim.