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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the narrator’s wife wash down all the pills from the medicine cabinet with while she was at Travis A.F.B.?
(a) A glass of orange juice
(b) A carton of milk
(c) A shot of whiskey
(d) A bottle of gin

2. Where does the narrator’s wife go to pick up her blind friend who comes to visit?
(a) The train station
(b) The airport
(c) The bus station
(d) A museum

3. When the television show about the Church pans across the countryside, the narrator describes men walking behind what?
(a) Chickens
(b) Pigs
(c) Oxen
(d) Sheep

4. The narrator says in the beginning of the story that the last time his wife saw the blind man was how many years ago?
(a) 4
(b) 2
(c) 10
(d) 7

5. What is another word for “arc-boutant” used in the story?
(a) Spire
(b) Crown
(c) Viaduct
(d) Flying buttress

Short Answer Questions

1. What are in the bottom of the shopping bag that the narrator gathers for the blind man at night?

2. At what point in the story does the protagonist reach his major epiphany?

3. When the narrator changes the television channel, he says there is something about the Church and what era on?

4. Regarding the view from the train, the narrator says, “going to New York, you should sit” where on the train?

5. What does the narrator say that he, his wife, and the blind man did after scarfing down their dinner in the story?

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