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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’s wife say she and her husband bought their sofa?
(a) 2 weeks ago
(b) 3 years ago
(c) 6 weeks ago
(d) 4 days ago

2. 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) Construction school
(b) Truck driving school
(c) Electrician school
(d) Officers’ training school

3. The narrator says of the “officer-to-be” that he’d been his wife’s what?
(a) Familial enemy
(b) Cousin
(c) School rival
(d) Childhood sweetheart

4. What is the narrator’s response when his wife asks as she comes downstairs, “What do I smell?”
(a) We thought we’d have us some cannabis
(b) I needed a cigarette
(c) I don’t smell anything
(d) Just incense my dear

5. What does the narrator see his wife doing as she parks the car when she returns with the blind man?
(a) Screaming
(b) Laughing
(c) Holding his hand
(d) Crying

Short Answer Questions

1. What are in the bottom of the shopping bag that the narrator gathers for the blind man at night?

2. How long is the blind man staying with the narrator and his wife in the story?

3. When the blind man smokes his second hit of marijuana, the narrator says, “It was like he’d been doing this since he was” how old?

4. At what point in the story does the protagonist reach his major epiphany?

5. 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?

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