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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long ago does the narrator say his wife offered to let him listen to a tape from the blind man in the beginning of the story?
(a) 3 years ago
(b) 1 year ago
(c) 2 months ago
(d) 6 months ago

2. From what narrative perspective is the story of “Cathedral” relayed?
(a) Second-person omniscient point of view
(b) Third-person omniscient point of view
(c) First-person limited point of view
(d) Third-person limited point of view

3. Where does the blind man put his hand as the narrator begins to draw in the story?
(a) At the edge of the table
(b) Over the narrator’s hand
(c) On the paper
(d) On the narrator’s face

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

5. How does the narrator feel about the blind man’s visit in the beginning of the story?
(a) Unenthusiastic
(b) Excited
(c) Angry
(d) Apprehensive

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says of the blind man that he’d done “a little bit of everything, it seemed, a regular” what?

2. Travis A.F.B. is described as being near what city in the short story?

3. The blind man asks the narrator’s wife if he looks what, when he meets her husband?

4. What does the narrator describe as “little statues carved to look like monsters”?

5. The man that the narrator’s wife was going to marry when she worked for the blind man was in what kind of school?

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