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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, the train ride from the blind man’s in-laws’ home to the narrator’s home takes how long?
(a) 9 hours
(b) 2 hours
(c) 12 hours
(d) 5 hours

2. What does the blind man take from his back pocket as he and the narrator are talking and watching television late at night?
(a) A bag
(b) A wallet
(c) A book
(d) A handkerchief

3. What slang term does the blind man use at the end of the story to mean “to lie”?
(a) Slander
(b) Fib
(c) Evasion
(d) Fudge

4. What does the blind man say “never ends” in the story?
(a) Sorrow
(b) Fantasy
(c) Learning
(d) Pride

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?
(a) Ten to twenty
(b) Hundreds
(c) Thirty to forty
(d) Thousands

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did the narrator’s wife wash down all the pills from the medicine cabinet with while she was at Travis A.F.B.?

4. Along what river does the narrator describe the train going on the route from his home to New York?

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

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