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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Cathedral.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the narrator’s wife first contacted the blind man after working for him, she called him from what facility?
(a) A Navy Base
(b) A hospital
(c) A train station
(d) An Air Force Base

2. The narrator says that the “was having a drink and” doing what when he “heard the car pull into the drive” with his wife and the blind man?
(a) Watching TV
(b) Doing a crossword puzzle
(c) Reading the paper
(d) Listening to the radio

3. Where is Travis A.F.B. located?
(a) Kansas
(b) California
(c) New Jersey
(d) Georgia

4. Exasperated by his inability to explain a cathedral to the blind man, the narrator apologizes and says, “The truth is, cathedrals don’t mean” what to him?
(a) Success
(b) Anything special
(c) Godliness
(d) The world

5. What does the narrator’s wife say when she awakens as the narrator is drawing a cathedral?
(a) What are you doing? Tell me, I want to know
(b) Where are the children?
(c) What time is it? Why are you still awake?
(d) I’ve got to call my mother

Short Answer Questions

1. In his attempt to describe cathedrals, the narrator tells the blind man that they are built out of stone and sometimes out of what?

2. In what periodical did “Cathedral” first appear?

3. How does the narrator describe the windows he draws on the cathedral in the story?

4. When the blind man smokes his second hit of marijuana, the narrator says, “It was like he’d been doing this since he was” how old?

5. What did the narrator’s wife’s first husband do when he found her after her overdose?

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