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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Blue, what is an interpretation of the faith in medieval Europe?
(a) Gothic.
(b) Doric.
(c) Corinthian.
(d) Modern.

2. The last time someone saw Stevens, what is he doing?
(a) At the movies.
(b) Leaving Blue's skyscraper.
(c) Drinking at the bar.
(d) Trying to blow up the bank.

3. Who is Blue's longest letter in Chapter V written to?
(a) Mr. Casril Wein.
(b) Mr. Albert Considine
(c) His mother.
(d) The narrator.

4. Fill in the following description of Copley Square: "One needs _____________ to fill the emptiness of Copley Square at night."
(a) People and voices.
(b) Prayer and meditation.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Bands and fireworks.

5. What does Blue say God gives his friends?
(a) A cross.
(b) Redemption.
(c) Beads.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the inclusion of Blue's thoughts in Chapter VI prove of Blue?

2. Where does Mr. Considine first meet Blue?

3. According to Blue in Chapter VI, what is Saint Patrick's Cathedral?

4. What is one of the narrator's weaknesses mentioned in Chapter VI?

5. What do the two visitors bring to Blue in the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who are the "Spies of God?"

4. What job does Blue take in Chapter VII?

5. What does the Gothic symbolize for Blue?

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

7. Why is Blue frightened by his own happiness?

8. What does the narrator learn from Blue in their walk around the lake about American Catholicism?

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

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

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