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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator’s wife’s story, how did the blind man meet his wife?
(a) She worked for him
(b) She sat next to him on a bus
(c) She would see him at the library
(d) She volunteered at her church

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

3. According to the narrator, the train ride from the blind man’s in-laws’ home to the narrator’s home takes how long?
(a) 12 hours
(b) 5 hours
(c) 2 hours
(d) 9 hours

4. In what periodical did “Cathedral” first appear?
(a) Harper's Magazine
(b) Readers Digest
(c) The Pastel Journal
(d) The Atlantic Monthly

5. The blind man asks the narrator’s wife if he looks what, when he meets her husband?
(a) Disheveled
(b) Disinterested
(c) Distinguished
(d) Displaced

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of pie does the narrator’s wife serve at dinner?

3. What does the blind man take from the backseat of the car when he and the narrator’s wife arrive at the narrator’s home?

4. Where does the narrator’s wife go to pick up her blind friend who comes to visit?

5. What does the narrator say that he, his wife, and the blind man did after scarfing down their dinner in the story?

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