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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. What does the narrator do with the gift from Blue at the end of Chapter VI?
(a) Gives it back to Blue.
(b) Throws it in the river.
(c) Puts it in his pocket.
(d) Leaves it on the sidewalk.

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

3. What is one of the narrator's weaknesses mentioned in Chapter VI?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Pretty girls.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Fine dining.

4. According to the narrator in Chapter VI, what is Blue?
(a) A Visionary.
(b) A Mystic.
(c) A Leader.
(d) A Believer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What service does Blue pledge himself to in Chapter VII?

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

3. What time do visiting hours end at the hospital?

4. What stationary is Blue's second letter written on?

5. According to Blue, what are the best gifts from heaven?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Blue's tone at dinner in Chapter VI.

2. What do the sixth and seventh letters have in common?

3. Why does Blue have to leave the top of the Tootsall Building?

4. Do you think Blue is a real person?

5. What is the narrator's vocation?

6. According to Blue, what is wrong with the written word?

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

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

9. What job does Blue take in Chapter VII?

10. What does the Gothic symbolize for Blue?

(see the answer keys)

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