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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the blind man’s wife die?
(a) She was in a car accident
(b) She died in childbirth
(c) She died of cancer
(d) She committed suicide

2. How does the narrator instruct the blind man to smoke the marijuana in the story?
(a) Don’t punish yourself
(b) Hold it as long as you can
(c) Inhale slowly
(d) Don’t take too much

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

4. The narrator feels pity for the blind man when he considers that he lived with and loved his wife without ever having what?
(a) Seen her
(b) Understood her
(c) Touched her
(d) Listened to her

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator tells the blind man, “In those olden days, when they built cathedrals, men wanted to be” what?

2. The narrator says in the beginning of the story that the last time his wife saw the blind man was how many years ago?

3. According to the narrator’s wife’s story, how did the blind man meet his wife?

4. What is the name of the blind man’s wife who recently passed away in the story?

5. 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?

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