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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what point in the story does the protagonist reach his major epiphany?
(a) When his wife arrives home
(b) After dinner
(c) When he closes his eyes
(d) When he turns on the TV

2. The narrator says of the blind man that he’d done “a little bit of everything, it seemed, a regular” what?
(a) John Muir
(b) Disabled explorer
(c) Barry Fitzgerald
(d) Blind jack-of-all-trades

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

4. What does the blind man remark about the narrator’s television set, saying, “Don’t ask me how, but I can tell”?
(a) That the sound seems rough
(b) That it is an old television set
(c) That it is a small television set
(d) That it is a color television set

5. What kind of paper does the blind man ask the narrator to go get when they are talking late at night?
(a) Wax paper
(b) Typewriter paper
(c) Tissue paper
(d) Heavy paper

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the narrator’s wife’s first marriage end?

2. How does the narrator instruct the blind man to smoke the marijuana in the story?

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

4. Where did the other half of the coin go that the blind man was left with, according to the narrator?

5. What is another word for “arc-boutant” used in the story?

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