View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator’s wife go to pick up her blind friend who comes to visit?
(a) The airport
(b) A museum
(c) The train station
(d) The bus station

2. What does the blind man ask the narrator about the paintings on the walls of the church in the television show?
(a) If they are cubist
(b) If they are modernist
(c) If they are oil paintings
(d) If they are fresco

3. What were the literary formats that Raymond Carver’s career was dedicated to?
(a) Nonfiction histories and short stories
(b) Essays and memoirs
(c) Short stories and poetry
(d) Novels and biographies

4. The man that the narrator’s wife was going to marry when she worked for the blind man was in what kind of school?
(a) Truck driving school
(b) Construction school
(c) Officers’ training school
(d) Electrician school

5. At what point in the story does the protagonist reach his major epiphany?
(a) When he closes his eyes
(b) After dinner
(c) When he turns on the TV
(d) When his wife arrives home

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Raymond Carver’s first published book of poems?

2. When the blind man appears to snooze during his conversation with the narrator, the narrator assumes that perhaps he’s imagining himself where?

3. What is another word for “arc-boutant” used in the story?

4. What does the blind man remark about the narrator’s television set, saying, “Don’t ask me how, but I can tell”?

5. What color are the narrator’s wife’s robe and slippers?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 286 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample