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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What central theme unites the main characters in “Cathedral”?
(a) Lust
(b) Alienation
(c) Overreaching ambition
(d) Maternal love

2. What was the narrator’s wife’s position when she worked for the blind man?
(a) She was a secretary
(b) She was an editor
(c) She was a pianist
(d) She was a reader

3. What color are the narrator’s wife’s robe and slippers?
(a) Yellow
(b) Pink
(c) Blue
(d) Green

4. What novelist was Raymond Carver’s mentor and teacher?
(a) John Gardner
(b) Horace Greeley
(c) Margaret Fuller
(d) Henry David Thoreau

5. The narrator says in the beginning of the story, “My idea of blindness came from” what?
(a) Church sermons
(b) The movies
(c) Word of mouth
(d) Magazines

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator finds a pen for the blind man where in his house?

2. What is the narrator’s final comment to the blind man in the story?

3. What is the blind man’s response when the narrator asks “if he wanted to smoke some dope with me”?

4. The blind man asks the narrator’s wife if he looks what, when he meets her husband?

5. On the television show about the Church, the narrator describes a famous cathedral shown in what city?

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