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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator’s wife say she shouldn’t be smoking this when she is passed the joint in the story?
(a) I could get drug tested
(b) I can barely keep my eyes open as it is
(c) It is the devil’s weed
(d) It makes me too talkative

2. What question does the blind man ask the narrator as the narrator begins drawing the cathedral in the story?
(a) Never thought anything like this could happen in your lifetime, did you, bub?
(b) Where’s your wife when you need her, huh, bub?
(c) Where are you going to put the steeple and the people, bub?
(d) What kind of building are you drawing here, bub?

3. How does the narrator describe the windows he draws on the cathedral in the story?
(a) Triangular
(b) Wide
(c) Arched
(d) Squared

4. When the narrator’s wife first contacted the blind man after working for him, she called him from what state?
(a) Indiana
(b) Alabama
(c) Missouri
(d) Tennessee

5. Where is Travis A.F.B. located?
(a) New Jersey
(b) Georgia
(c) California
(d) Kansas

6. What is the first thing the narrator says he draws in his attempt to recreate a cathedral for the blind man?
(a) A box that looked like a house
(b) A barn-like structure
(c) A tent of some kind
(d) A rickety old shack

7. At the end of the story, the narrator says, “I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn’t feel like I was” what?
(a) In my right mind
(b) Imagining anything
(c) Inside anything
(d) Physically there

8. What does the narrator describe as “little statues carved to look like monsters”?
(a) Phantoms
(b) Vampires
(c) Gargoyles
(d) Trolls

9. After hearing her name, the narrator asks his wife what question?
(a) Was his wife Canadian?
(b) Was his wife southern?
(c) Was his wife a Yankee?
(d) Was his wife a Negro?

10. 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 bottle of gin
(b) A carton of milk
(c) A shot of whiskey
(d) A glass of orange juice

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

12. When the blind man appears to snooze during his conversation with the narrator, the narrator assumes that perhaps he’s imagining himself where?
(a) Portugal
(b) Greece
(c) Spain
(d) Italy

13. The blind man discusses his ham radio operator friends in “Guam, in the Philippines, in Alaska, and even” where?
(a) Poland
(b) Bolivia
(c) Tahiti
(d) Australia

14. When the narrator’s wife first contacted the blind man after working for him, she called him from what facility?
(a) A Navy Base
(b) An Air Force Base
(c) A hospital
(d) A train station

15. Exasperated by his inability to explain a cathedral to the blind man, the narrator apologizes and says, “The truth is, cathedrals don’t mean” what to him?
(a) The world
(b) Godliness
(c) Success
(d) Anything special

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator tells the blind man, “In those olden days, when they built cathedrals, men wanted to be” what?

3. What do the narrator and his wife drink when they sit down to talk with the blind man after he’s arrived?

4. What does the blind man ask the narrator about the paintings on the walls of the church in the television show?

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

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