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The Five People You Meet in Heaven: pages 1-36

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

2. Why didn't Joe talk to Eddie for months?

3. Why does Eddie punch Mickey?

4. What does the first person Eddie meets state as the purpose for heaven?

5. What feels different to Eddie after he dies?

6. What is Eddie's occupation?

7. What gesture indicates that Eddie is kind to his co-workers?

8. How old was Eddie when he died?

9. Where is Eddie when he wakes up after dying?

10. What happened to Nickey?

11. Who is the first person Eddie meets in heaven?

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven: pages 1-36
Explain the following quote, "But the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets."
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1. at Ruby Pier
2. Eddie, Joe's younger brother, saves Joe from a beating, and he is humiliated.
3. Mickey gave him the Irish tradition of birthday bumps.
4. The purpose of heaven is to help people understand their life on Earth.
5. He has no pain or worries.
6. He is a maintenance man at the amusement park.
7. He gave Dom forty dollars to buy his wife a present.
8. eighty-three
9. He is at the Ruby Pier of his childhood in the Tea Cup Ride.
10. Nickey lost the key to his car.
11. He meets the Blue Man.