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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what narrative perspective is the story of “Cathedral” relayed?
(a) Second-person omniscient point of view
(b) Third-person omniscient point of view
(c) First-person limited point of view
(d) Third-person limited point of view

2. What does the narrator do when the blind man says after the drawing is complete, “Take a look. What do you think?”
(a) He calls for his wife
(b) He begins to weep
(c) He keeps his eyes closed
(d) He looks at the drawing

3. How long does the narrator say he’s been in his current position (of employment) when asked by the blind man?
(a) 8 months
(b) 1 year
(c) 2 years
(d) 3 years

4. According to the narrator, his wife had helped the blind man organize his little office where when she worked for him?
(a) A large bank
(b) The county social service department
(c) The Internal Revenue Service
(d) A grocery store

5. The narrator says of the blind man’s employment that most recently he and his wife had had what kind of distributorship?
(a) Amway
(b) Electronics
(c) Automobile
(d) Safeway

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the narrator and his wife offer the blind man as they smoke marijuana in the story?

2. What does the narrator say that he, his wife, and the blind man did after scarfing down their dinner in the story?

3. How does the narrator describe the blind man’s shoulders after his arrival?

4. What are the supports called on a cathedral that are built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts?

5. Travis A.F.B. is described as being near what city in the short story?

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