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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. From what narrative perspective is the story of “Cathedral” relayed?
(a) Third-person omniscient point of view
(b) Second-person omniscient point of view
(c) Third-person limited point of view
(d) First-person limited point of view

3. What instruction does the blind man give to the narrator as he draws the cathedral in the story?
(a) Draw slowly
(b) Press hard
(c) Fill in all the details
(d) Lightly now

4. Where does the narrator go to find a pen and paper when the blind man suggests it at night?
(a) To the nursery
(b) To the bathroom
(c) To the basement
(d) Upstairs

5. Where was Raymond Carver born?
(a) Jackson, Wyoming
(b) Yakima, Washington
(c) Mountain Home, Idaho
(d) Clatskanie, Oregon

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was “Cathedral” first published in a periodical?

2. What did the blind man ask the narrator’s wife if he could do on her last day working for him?

3. The narrator’s wife commented to the blind man through their first correspondence that she loved her husband but she didn’t love what?

4. As the narrator continues his drawing of the cathedral, he comments near the end of the story, “His fingers rode my fingers as my hand went over the paper. It was like” what?

5. Where does the blind man live?

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