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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Thousands
(b) Thirty to forty
(c) Hundreds
(d) Ten to twenty

2. The narrator says of the blind man’s employment that most recently he and his wife had had what kind of distributorship?
(a) Electronics
(b) Automobile
(c) Amway
(d) Safeway

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

4. When the narrator changes the television channel, he says there is something about the Church and what era on?
(a) The Industrial Revolution
(b) The Stone Age
(c) The Computer Age
(d) The Middle Ages

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What beverage does the blind man drink with his dinner in the story?

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

3. What is the narrator’s response when his wife asks as she comes downstairs, “What do I smell?”

4. What kind of paper does the blind man ask the narrator to go get when they are talking late at night?

5. Travis A.F.B. is described as being near what city in the short story?

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