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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator surmises of the blind man’s wife that she could wear what color eye-shadow around one eye and it wouldn’t make a difference?
(a) Green
(b) Black
(c) White
(d) Silver

2. The narrator finds a pen for the blind man where in his house?
(a) In a basket on his wife’s table
(b) In his desk drawer
(c) In the garage
(d) On the kitchen counter

3. What is playing on the television as the narrator’s wife exits upstairs in the story?
(a) A late-night comedy show
(b) Entertainment news
(c) The weather report
(d) A game show

4. What term refers to the portion of a story that introduces the important background information, such as the narrator’s descriptions of his wife’s history with the blind man in “Cathedral”?
(a) Denouement
(b) Climax
(c) Rising action
(d) Exposition

5. What does the narrator admit he does not believe in when discussing matters with the blind man late at night in the story?
(a) The Devil
(b) Beauty
(c) Humanity
(d) Anything

Short Answer Questions

1. Of his knowledge of cathedrals, the blind man says that he knows from the television show that they took about how many years to build?

2. What term, often used to characterize Raymond Carver’s writing, refers to a style in which the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life are presented in unadorned language?

3. What does the blind man take from the backseat of the car when he and the narrator’s wife arrive at the narrator’s home?

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

5. When was Raymond Carver’s short story collection Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Published?

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