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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the member of the lumberyard gang who Blue took an interest in?

2. In one of Blue's letters, Blue writes, "Life gives you ______________."

3. After the narrator leaves the hospital, who comes to visit Blue?

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

5. Fill in the following quote from one of Blue's letters: "People remember sorrow much longer than they remember ___________."

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Gothic symbolize for Blue?

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

3. What is the narrator's vocation?

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

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

6. What religion is Blue?

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

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

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

10. How does Blue feel about scientific agnosticism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mr. Blue is guided by deep Christian values. Explore these values and how they affect how Mr. Blue lives his life.

Essay Topic 2

What is the narrator's reaction to Mr. Blue's death? What does this say about the narrators thoughts on religion? Do you think it is fair that Mr. Blue died, yet the narrator is still living? Who is more 'worthy' to be alive?

Essay Topic 3

Chapter VI ends with Blue giving the narrator a card that reads "The cross is the gift God gives his friends." Analyze this card, where it came from and what meaning it has for Blue and the narrator.

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