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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator tell the blind man the show about cathedrals has traveled to, where there are “paintings on the walls of this one church”?
(a) Italy
(b) Finland
(c) Romania
(d) Denmark

2. The narrator tells the blind man that sometimes cathedrals have “devils and such carved into the front. Sometimes” what?
(a) Lords and ladies
(b) Kings and bishops
(c) Plants and animals
(d) Peasants and thieves

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

4. 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) Success
(b) Godliness
(c) Anything special
(d) The world

5. What word from the story refers to a bridge for carrying a road or railway across a valley, consisting of a set of arches supported by a row of piers or towers?
(a) Viaduct
(b) Tunnel
(c) Well
(d) Delta

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the blind man going to visit his dead wife’s relatives in the beginning of the story?

2. What tool does the narrator note the blind man does not use after his arrival?

3. Where does the narrator’s wife go to pick up her blind friend who comes to visit?

4. The narrator says in the beginning of the story, “My idea of blindness came from” what?

5. When does the narrator say his wife was to marry her fiancé when she worked for the blind man?

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