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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’s first marriage end?
(a) Her husband committed suicide
(b) Her husband was incarcerated
(c) Her husband was murdered
(d) She and her husband got divorced

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

3. What was the narrator’s response when the blind man asks if he likes his work?
(a) I didn’t
(b) I loved it
(c) I despised it
(d) I was growing to love it

4. What central theme unites the main characters in “Cathedral”?
(a) Lust
(b) Overreaching ambition
(c) Alienation
(d) Maternal love

5. How long does the narrator say he’s been in his current position (of employment) when asked by the blind man?
(a) 2 years
(b) 3 years
(c) 8 months
(d) 1 year

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the narrator’s viewpoint of blind people characterized in the beginning of the story?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. What does the blind man do as the narrator attempts to explain cathedrals to him?

5. How does the narrator describe the blind man’s facial hair?

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