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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 narrator's reply to Blue's comment, "My old friend, Mr. Compromiser."
2. What is Blue's third letter written on?
3. Fill in the following quote by Blue in Chapter VII: "But this life is so beautiful that I am _____________ of it sometimes."
4. What is one objection the narrator had to Blue's vocational plan?
5. Which of the following ways does Blue support himself?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the first letter about and what does it say about Blue?
2. What does Blue give the narrator at the end of Chapter VI?
3. What is the narrator's vocation?
4. What is the setting of Chapter VI?
5. In what letter does Blue describe his view of the end of the world?
6. What job does Blue take in Chapter VII?
7. What do the sixth and seventh letters have in common?
8. What is the narrators reaction to Blue's plan in Chapter VII to live among the poor?
9. How many letters does the narrator have from Blue? Who are they from?
10. Who are the "Spies of God?"
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze how the narrator first met Mr. Blue and the early relationship between the two men. Why did Blue first approach Stevens? Describe what happened when the narrator and Blue were first alone together? Why do you think the narrator was so intrigued with Blue? During their first meeting on the skyscraper, Blue launches into a diatribe on his religious views. Is this a common topic among two people who are just meeting?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Analyze Blue's religious views at it relates to the following quote from Chapter II: "Without Christ we would be little more than bacteria breeding on a pebble in space."
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