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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 makes up the majority of the content of Chapter V?
(a) Letters from Blue.
(b) Records of Blue's achievements.
(c) Bank statements.
(d) Letters from the narrator to Blue.

2. In Blue's second letter, all of the following are words Blue describes as words men put on shields except:
(a) Love.
(b) Faith.
(c) Audacity.
(d) Safety.

3. 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 uneducated.
(c) That he was a thinker.
(d) That he was immature.

4. What is the weather like in Chapter VII?
(a) Raining.
(b) Snowing.
(c) Warm.
(d) Sunny, but cold.

5. What is the title of the one serious poem written by Blue in Chapter V?
(a) Quotations.
(b) Dwaddling.
(c) Verses.
(d) Exclamations.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Blue in Chapter VI, what is the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine?

2. Fill in the following quotation by Blue in Chapter VI: "Once heroes built fortresses against the Mongol and the Saracen; now they must build fortresses against _____________."

3. What is the narrator's goal in life?

4. Who forwards a letter to the narrator from Blue on vices?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In what letter does Blue describe his view of the end of the world?

2. Why is Blue frightened by his own happiness?

3. What does the Gothic symbolize for Blue?

4. What values of Blue's do the eighth, ninth and tenth letters defend?

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

6. How does Blue feel about those who read?

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

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

9. What is the setting of Chapter VI?

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

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