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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 narrator’s wife maintain contact with the blind man since they last saw one another in person?
(a) They communicated by fax machine
(b) They wrote emails to each other
(c) They mailed tapes to each other
(d) They wrote letters to each other

2. What do the narrator and his wife offer the blind man as they smoke marijuana in the story?
(a) A blanket
(b) More pie
(c) A pillow
(d) A cup of coffee

3. The blind man tells the narrator as he continues his drawing of the cathedral, “You got it, bub. I can tell. You didn’t think you could. But you can, can’t you? You’re cooking with” what?
(a) Grease
(b) Charcoal
(c) Gas now
(d) Dry tinder

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

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) Beauty
(b) Anything
(c) Humanity
(d) The Devil

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is all of the blind man’s attire when he arrives?

2. According to the narrator, his wife had helped the blind man organize his little office where when she worked for him?

3. What did the narrator’s wife wash down all the pills from the medicine cabinet with while she was at Travis A.F.B.?

4. In his attempt to describe cathedrals, the narrator tells the blind man that they are built out of stone and sometimes out of what?

5. Where in Portugal does the television show feature a cathedral?

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