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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 the narrator, Blue is a living demonstration of ____________.
(a) Honesty.
(b) Love.
(c) Faith.
(d) Christ.

2. How does the narrator know where to find Blue's hospital cot?
(a) The narrator knew the hospital well.
(b) Blue's note said the room number.
(c) A crowd of people around him.
(d) He asked at the front desk.

3. What is the narrator's goal in life?
(a) To bring the gospel to the poor.
(b) To make a great deal of money.
(c) To right the world's wrongs.
(d) To heal the sick.

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

5. What kind of school does Blue suggest the narrator start?
(a) A school of religious art.
(b) A school for the gifted.
(c) A school for ministry.
(d) A school for the blind.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter IV, what happens to Blue?

2. Who does Blue write a letter to who was interested in investing in his motion picture idea?

3. What gives Blue courage at the beginning of Chapter VI?

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

5. What does Blue leave for Mrs. Murphy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How many letters does the narrator have from Blue? Who are they from?

2. How does Blue end up in the hospital?

3. How does Blue feel about scientific agnosticism?

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

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

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

7. What is the setting of Chapter VI?

8. What religion is Blue?

9. What is the narrator's vocation?

10. What does the Gothic symbolize for Blue?

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