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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. According to Blue, what ruins the intellect of man?
2. How does the narrator know where to find Blue's hospital cot?
3. What is the title of the one serious poem written by Blue in Chapter V?
4. At the end of Chapter VI, what subway entrance do Blue and the narrator stop outside of?
5. What is Blue's last letter to the narrator about?
Short Essay Questions
1. What job does Blue take in Chapter VII?
2. What is the first letter about and what does it say about Blue?
3. How does Blue end up in the hospital?
4. What is the narrator's vocation?
5. What does the narrator learn from Blue in their walk around the lake about American Catholicism?
6. How many letters does the narrator have from Blue? Who are they from?
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. According to Blue, what is wrong with the written word?
10. What is the narrators reaction to Blue's plan in Chapter VII to live among the poor?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Mr. Blue can easily be described as eccentric. Using examples from the text, describe Mr. Blue's eccentricities.
Essay Topic 2
In Blue's story in Chapter III, people have become slaves to technology with only six people running the world. This provides insight into Blue's feelings about how humans interact with technology and his fear of becoming too dependent. Analyze Blue's attitudes on technology as revealed in his story in Chapter III. What is the positive impact technology has on people in Blue's story? What is the negative impact technology has on people in Blue's story?
Essay Topic 3
"Mr. Blue" can be described as a retelling of the story of St. Francis. How are St. Francis and Mr. Blue alike? How are St. Francis and Mr. Blue different? What role did religion play in the lives of both St. Francis and Mr. Blue? Would you agree or disagree that "Mr. Blue" is a retelling of the St. Francis story?
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