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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 do the two visitors bring to Blue in the hospital?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A book.
(c) A pint of gin.
(d) A Bible.

2. According to Blue, what ruins the intellect of man?
(a) Industrialization.
(b) The printed word.
(c) Formal schooling.
(d) Money.

3. Who does the narrator equate Blue's loneliness to?
(a) The great writers.
(b) The great musicians.
(c) The great artists.
(d) The great prophets.

4. What time do visiting hours end at the hospital?
(a) 8:00 p.m.
(b) 6:00 p.m.
(c) 5:00 p.m.
(d) 7:00 p.m.

5. What does the inclusion of Blue's thoughts in Chapter VI prove of Blue?
(a) That he was out of touch with reality.
(b) That he was a thinker.
(c) That he was uneducated.
(d) That he was immature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What quality do great men of the world possess, according to Blue?

2. In the hospital, what does the physician fear for Blue?

3. According to Blue, what does Christmas represent?

4. What are the narrator's feelings towards Blue as he walked away?

5. How long does it take the narrator to get to the hospital to see Blue?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Blue feel about those who read?

2. Would you consider Blue to be a deep thinker?

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

4. What is the setting of Chapter VI?

5. Which letter concerns forgiveness? How so?

6. What is the narrator's vocation?

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

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

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

10. What is the narrator's response to Blue's death?

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