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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters IV and V.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator prove that Blue is a real person?
(a) Birth certificate.
(b) Letters from Blue.
(c) Social security card.
(d) Passport.

2. How is Blue described when the narrator first runs into him in Chapter I?
(a) Like a retired businessman.
(b) Like a college boy on holiday.
(c) Like an Oxford professor.
(d) Like a sunburned athlete.

3. How does the IGW try to stop 2,757,311 from his activities on the roof?
(a) Shooting him with a gun.
(b) Directing him to stop with a loud megaphone.
(c) Storming the building.
(d) Dropping bombs.

4. When the narrator returns to Blue at the end of Chapter I, what does he see?
(a) Blue praying before a black cross.
(b) Blue talking on the phone.
(c) Blue cooking in his kitchen.
(d) Blue sleeping on his couch.

5. Which of the following ways does Blue support himself?
(a) Working at a bank.
(b) Performing concerts.
(c) Collecting pennies.
(d) Shoveling snow.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter II, Blue mentions the following countries when speaking from his skyscraper except:

2. Fill in the following quote from Chapter I: " I have more ____________ than anyone alive."

3. How does Stevens describe the music from the concert on the skyscraper roof?

4. What famous author does Blue write about in a letter to Dr. Frederick W. O'Brien?

5. Complete the following quote from one of Blue's letters in Chapter V: "Conservative historians describe any man with a passion for greatness as a ____________."

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