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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Blue's idea for a motion picture end?
(a) With 2,757,311 being killed and the slaves going back to work.
(b) With the end of the world.
(c) Restoration of the cultivation of crops.
(d) With peace on the earth.

2. Which of the following is not a reason to not live on a skyscraper roof?
(a) The wind.
(b) The fog.
(c) The airplanes.
(d) The elevators.

3. The narrator describes Blue as all of the following except:
(a) Healthy.
(b) Audacious.
(c) Boring.
(d) Merry.

4. How does Stevens describe the music from the concert on the skyscraper roof?
(a) Maniacal music.
(b) Insomnia inducing music.
(c) Loneliness curing music.
(d) Neanderthal music.

5. What does the IGW exterminate?
(a) The human race.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Rodents.
(d) Bugs.

6. In Chapter II, Blue mentions the following countries when speaking from his skyscraper except:
(a) Spain.
(b) Italy.
(c) Japan.
(d) Portugal.

7. In Blue's motion picture idea, what does IGW stand for?
(a) The International Government of the World.
(b) The Imaginary Gem Word.
(c) The Identifier of Good Works.
(d) The Inconclusive Graphic Witchhunt.

8. After Blue finished telling his story, how many minutes of silence were there?
(a) Twenty minutes.
(b) Five minutes.
(c) Ten minutes.
(d) Two minutes.

9. Who does the narrator compare Blue to?
(a) Shel Silverstein.
(b) Hans Christian Andersen.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Charles Dickens.

10. In Blue's motion picture idea, what does SC No.1 refer to?
(a) A musical score.
(b) The food source.
(c) Blue's assigned number.
(d) New York.

11. From what point of view is the novel told?
(a) First person.
(b) Second person.
(c) Third person omniscient.
(d) Third person limited.

12. In England, who does Blue visit the important places in the life of?
(a) Sir Thomas More.
(b) Cardinal Thomas Wolsey.
(c) Thomas Cromwell.
(d) King Henry VIII.

13. Fill in the following quote by the narrator from Chapter III: "You mean every husband is a sort of ___________."
(a) Saint.
(b) Martyr.
(c) God.
(d) Scholar.

14. What book does Blue want to publish a deluxe edition of?
(a) The Odyssey.
(b) The New Testament.
(c) The Iliad.
(d) The Old Testament.

15. Why does the author include Blue's motion picture idea in the novel?
(a) To give insight into Blue's mind.
(b) To tell an interesting story.
(c) To possibly get it made into a movie.
(d) To add pages to the novel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Blue think should be built on top of his skyscraper?

2. What kind of art does Blue have little use for?

3. When Blue first received his inheritance, what does he do with his money?

4. How much money does Blue really have?

5. According to Blue, which of the following is not one of the advantages of living on a skyscraper roof?

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