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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 quality do great men of the world possess, according to Blue?
(a) They were talkers.
(b) They were hard workers.
(c) They came from money.
(d) They work their way up the corporate ladder.

2. Why is Blue in the hospital?
(a) He was committed for being insane.
(b) Malnutrition.
(c) He was hurt at work.
(d) He was hit by a car.

3. Which of Blue's letters is a reply to the narrator's objection to Blue's upbraiding the world?
(a) Third letter.
(b) Fifth letter.
(c) Second letter.
(d) Fourth letter.

4. According to Blue in Chapter VI, what is Saint Patrick's Cathedral?
(a) Modern.
(b) Ancient.
(c) An anachronism.
(d) Gothic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the weather like in Chapter VII?

2. What is the narrator's reply to Blue's comment, "My old friend, Mr. Compromiser."

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

4. Fill in the following quote by Blue in Chapter VI: "It is because I have been so happy that I am so ______________."

5. In Chapter IV, what happens to Blue?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What religion is Blue?

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

4. How does Blue feel about those who read?

5. Which letter concerns forgiveness? How so?

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

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

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

9. How does Blue feel about scientific agnosticism?

10. What job does Blue take in Chapter VII?

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