Mr. Blue Test | Final Test - Hard

Myles Connolly
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 113 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Mr. Blue Test | Final Test - Hard

Myles Connolly
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 113 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Blue equates the fights of his day with fighting the plague with what?

2. In Chapter IV, what happens to Blue?

3. According to the narrator in Chapter VI, what is Blue?

4. How long does it take the narrator to get to the hospital to see Blue?

5. According to Blue, what ruins the intellect of man?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Blue treated by his coworkers at the lumberyard?

2. Could Blue be described as cautious? Which letter speaks to this?

3. What does Blue give the narrator at the end of Chapter VI?

4. What job does Blue take in Chapter VII?

5. Describe what the narrator saw when he first went to see Blue in the hospital.

6. What is the narrators reaction to Blue's plan in Chapter VII to live among the poor?

7. What does the Gothic symbolize for Blue?

8. What is the first letter about and what does it say about Blue?

9. What is the setting of Chapter VI?

10. What is the difference between a vow of poverty in a religious order and the vow of poverty that Blue took?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze what genre "Mr. Blue" is. What evidence from the text supports your opinion? Is it only one genre or a combination?

Essay Topic 2

Mr. Blue was published in 1928, three years after the legendary novel, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In many ways, Blue is the anti-Gatsby. Examine the similarities and differences between the two novels, "Mr. Blue" and "The Great Gatsby."

Essay Topic 3

Mr. Blue is guided by deep Christian values. Explore these values and how they affect how Mr. Blue lives his life.

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