Mitch Albom Trivia

1. Name the character who said: "They truly believe their love and their marriage is going to break all the records."

From Quiz The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Answer: Marguerite

Eddie is an 83-year-old maintenance man at an amusement park when he is killed in a freak accident. He discovers heaven is meeting five people who help explain his life. These people show Eddie scenes from Earth that are significant to him. The fourth person he meets is his wife, Marguerite. She died many years earlier, but when Eddie meets her again, she is young like when they first met. They spend a short period of time together in heaven.

From Quiz Tuesdays With Morrie

Answer: Mitchell Albom, Morrie's pupil

This book was Mitchell's ("friends call him Mitch") "final thesis" in Morrie's class. Mitch Albom is also an acclaimed sports columnist.

From Quiz The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Answer: Joseph Corvelzchik

The Blue Man had been a member of the freak show at the Funfair when Eddie was a small boy. Emile and Mickey appear later in the story.

From Quiz The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Answer: the Blue Man

The Blue Man is the first person Eddie meets in heaven. He is blue because, while he was alive, he ingested a poison that, over a period of time, turned his skin blue. Eddie is horrified when the Blue Man reveals Eddie had unwittingly caused the Blue Man's death.

From Quiz Tuesdays With Morrie

Answer: Brandeis University

Morrie Schwartz taught sociology at Brandeis, and Mitch Albom graduated with the class of 1979. Brandeis University is located in the city of Waltham, Massachusetts.

From Quiz The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Answer: No life is a waste

The Blue Man tells Eddie "The only time that we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone". Because of Eddie the Blue Man died. As a young boy Eddie had run out into the road to retrieve his baseball forcing the car that the Blue Man was driving to swerve, frightening him to the point that he has a heart attack and dies. Eddie did not know that, by his inadvertent action, a man had died.

From Quiz The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Answer: the Captain

The Captain is the second person Eddie meets. The Captain takes Eddie back to a scene when they were both prisoners of war. Eddie is furious when he discovers the Captain was the one who shot him in the leg. Until this point, Eddie did not know who had partially crippled him for most of his life.

From Quiz Tuesdays With Morrie

Answer: Amyotrophic Lateral Scoliosis (Lou Gehrig's disease)

Amyotrophic Lateral Scoliosis (ALS) was publicized when the great baseball hitter, Lou Gehrig announced he was to quit baseball due to the fact that he was diagnosed with ALS. The disease was named after him. ALS is fatal and causes progressive muscle weakness which will eventually result in paralysis.

From Quiz The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Answer: Up a tree

The Captain appeared to Eddie in a tree smoking a cigarette and complaining that with all the injections he had received before going to war still he ended up dead.

From Quiz The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Answer: Ruby

Ruby is the third person Eddie meets in heaven. Ruby's husband had built the amusement park where Eddie worked most of his life and where he finally died. Although he did not know her while alive, she knew things about Eddie's father from her own life.

From Quiz Tuesdays With Morrie

Answer: Saw Morrie in an interview with Ted Koppel on "Nightline"

After being diagnosed with ALS, Morrie became even more energized and began jotting down aphorisms, such as, "Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it." A colleaugue at Brandeis sent them in to the Boston Globe, which published an article entitled, "A Professor's Final Course: His Own Death". A "Nightline" producer saw the article and decided to do an interview with Morrie. Coincidental that Mitch stumbled upon the interview as he was channel-surfing and came upon his old professor for one final class?

From Quiz The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Answer: A coal mine

Eddie, his Captain, and some of his squad were sent to a coal mine in the Philippines where the conditions were horrendous and they were treated like slaves.

From Quiz The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Answer: Tala

Tala is the fifth person Eddie meets. She is a small girl whom Eddie accidentally-and unknowingly-kills when he sets on fire the village where he had been taken prisoner.

From Quiz Tuesdays With Morrie

Answer: That's when they held "class".

Morrie and Mitch were "Tuesday people" and that's when Mitch would come and speak with Morrie.

From Quiz The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Answer: The Captain

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.

From Quiz The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Answer: the Captain

Eddie, the Captain and the other soldiers set the abandoned village on fire as they make their escape. Eddie, however, thinks he sees someone sculking about the huts as the flames rise. Eddie heads back into the fire. Thinking Eddie has lost his mind-as sometimes happens to soldiers in wartime-the captain shoots Eddie in the leg.

From Quiz Tuesdays With Morrie

Answer: 14

The title for each chapter in the midsection of the book follows a similar format. The (a cardinal number, i.e. first, second, etc.) Tuesday: We Talk About (something). For example, The Eigth Tuesday: We Talk About Money.

From Quiz The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Answer: Stepped on a landmine

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.

From Quiz The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Answer: the Blue Man

The Blue Man explains that because he died, Eddie had lived. He tells Eddie that death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else. Eddie is touched by the fact the Blue Man had died in his stead, but they were only strangers on Earth. The Blue Man defines "strangers" for Eddie.

From Quiz Tuesdays With Morrie

Answer: Coach

That was the way Mitch used to address his high school track coach, and it stuck. Morrie rather enjoyed the nickname, and he in turn called Mitch "player".

From Quiz The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Answer: Sacrifice is a part of life

"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.

From Quiz The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Answer: Marguerite

Eddie confesses he felt anger at Marguerite for dying so young. She was the only woman he loved. Marguerite explains that love takes a different form-memory. She tells Eddie that life ends, but love does not. Eddie requests she change herself to look like she did the year she died. She does and they slow dance to accordion music from when they got married in a Chinese restaurant.

From Quiz Tuesdays With Morrie

Answer: Birth

The entire list is as follows: "death, fear, aging, greed, marriage, family, society, forgiveness, and a meaningfull life." They had many insightful discussions about each and every single topic.

From Quiz The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Answer: the Captain

The Captain had said this about their captors. Immediately after they had escaped and the Captain had shot Eddie, the Captain is killed. Eddie, who was unconscious, never discovered how he had gotten shot until the Captain reveals it to him in Heaven. He explains to Eddie how it was the only way to stop him from heading into the fire and probably losing his life.

From Quiz Tuesdays With Morrie

Answer: An average day, before he was sick.

It was a simple day, with life's greatest pleasures.

From Quiz The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Answer: Eddie's father's best friend Mickey tried to rape Eddie's mother

On returning from work Eddie's father caught Mickey attempting to rape his wife. Mickey had been drinking heavily after having been fired from his job at the funfair. Eddie's father chased Mickey to the end of the pier where Mickey, drunkenly, fell off the pier. Eddie's father jumped in and rescued Mickey, dragging him to shore. He was 56 years of age then and the sea took its toll on him and he developed pneumonia and was taken to hospital.

From Quiz The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Answer: Ruby

Eddie and his father had a difficult relationship. Ruby knew things about Eddie's father that helped put things into perspective for him.

From Quiz Tuesdays With Morrie

Answer: Cry

"I blinked back the tears, and he smacked his lips together and raised his eyebrows at the sight of my face. I like to think it was a fleeting moment of satisfaction for my dear old professor: he had finally made me cry."

From Quiz The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Answer: Forgiveness

"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." "no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed from it." Ruby showed Eddie that to move forward to Heaven he had to forgive his father for the things he had done.

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