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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of pie does the narrator’s wife serve at dinner?
(a) Strawberry pie
(b) Banana cream pie
(c) Apple pie
(d) Peach pie

2. What does the narrator describe to the blind man as the things that are tormenting the monks on the television show?
(a) Skeletons
(b) Ghosts
(c) Bears
(d) Tigers

3. What does the narrator say that he, his wife, and the blind man did after scarfing down their dinner in the story?
(a) After that we could not even look at the pie
(b) For a few moments, we sat as if stunned
(c) We all wondered if anyone would take another serving
(d) We wondered if each of us could keep it all down

4. Where is Travis A.F.B. located?
(a) Kansas
(b) California
(c) New Jersey
(d) Georgia

5. What is another word for “arc-boutant” used in the story?
(a) Viaduct
(b) Spire
(c) Flying buttress
(d) Crown

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator’s wife’s first husband do when he found her after her overdose?

2. The narrator says of the “officer-to-be” that he’d been his wife’s what?

3. When the narrator changes the television channel, he says there is something about the Church and what era on?

4. On the television show about the Church, the narrator describes a famous cathedral shown in what city?

5. What does the blind man take from his back pocket as he and the narrator are talking and watching television late at night?

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