2. What does the narrator’s wife say she is going to do upstairs as she exits, leaving the narrator and the blind man alone after dinner?
(a) Read a book
(b) Take a bath
(c) Call a friend on the telephone
(d) Change into her robe

3. Where does the narrator’s wife fall asleep after they’ve smoked marijuana?
(a) In the bathtub
(b) In the chair
(c) On the couch
(d) On the floor

4. For how many years were the blind man and his wife married before her health went rapidly in decline?
(a) 13
(b) 8
(c) 5
(d) 3

5. What does the blind man take from his back pocket as he and the narrator are talking and watching television late at night?
(a) A bag
(b) A handkerchief
(c) A wallet
(d) A book

Short Answer Questions

1. As the narrator continues his drawing of the cathedral, he comments near the end of the story, “His fingers rode my fingers as my hand went over the paper. It was like” what?

2. At the end of the story, the narrator says, “I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn’t feel like I was” what?

3. What artistic forms are addressed in “Cathedral”?

4. How is the narrator’s viewpoint of blind people characterized in the beginning of the story?

5. In what city did the blind man’s wife die?

(see the answer key)

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