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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of Blue's letters is a reply to the narrator's objection to Blue's upbraiding the world?
(a) Third letter.
(b) Second letter.
(c) Fifth letter.
(d) Fourth letter.

2. In one of Blue's letters, Blue writes, "Life gives you ______________."
(a) Pretty much what you give it.
(b) A taste of the imagination.
(c) The ability to read, not to think.
(d) Lemons and it is up to you to make lemonade.

3. Blue equates the fights of his day with fighting the plague with what?
(a) A sword.
(b) Prayer.
(c) A bow and arrow.
(d) Antibiotics.

4. What quality do great men of the world possess, according to Blue?
(a) They came from money.
(b) They were hard workers.
(c) They work their way up the corporate ladder.
(d) They were talkers.

5. What is Blue's response to the narrator's comment on him getting a girl?
(a) Blue grins.
(b) Blue turns and walked away.
(c) Blue doesn't reply.
(d) Blue says he would think about it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Blue's idea for a motion picture begin?

2. In Chapter I, in what tone does Blue say, "Please, please. What can I do?"

3. In Blue's idea for a motion picture, what is punishable by death?

4. What makes up the majority of the content of Chapter V?

5. What is the name of the cigar shop that Stevens and the narrator were talking in?

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