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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 time do visiting hours end at the hospital?

2. According to Blue, all of the following are given by heaven except:

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

4. What is the purpose of Blue's chosen vocation?

5. The sight of Blue in the hospital makes the narrator feel all of the following except:

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the first letter about and what does it say about Blue?

2. What is the setting of Chapter VI?

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

4. Could Blue be described as cautious? Which letter speaks to this?

5. What job does Blue take in Chapter VII?

6. What is the narrator's vocation?

7. What does the Gothic symbolize for Blue?

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

9. What is the vocation Blue found?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Writers often write about their own life experiences. What do we know about the life of Miles Connolly? What experiences in Miles Connolly's life led him to write "Mr. Blue"?

Essay Topic 2

In Blue's story in Chapter III, all Christians had been exterminated. The world ends when White performs Mass and God destroys the world and makes it anew. Analyze Blue's philosophy of religion as revealed in the story in Chapter III.

Essay Topic 3

Using what you learned about characterization, write a character analysis of "Mr. Blue." Include the following: a description, actions, relationship to other characters, motives, strengths and weaknesses.

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