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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Twelve years old
(b) Nine years old
(c) Sixteen years old
(d) Five years old

2. What does the narrator admit he does not believe in when discussing matters with the blind man late at night in the story?
(a) Humanity
(b) Anything
(c) Beauty
(d) The Devil

3. How does the narrator describe the windows he draws on the cathedral in the story?
(a) Squared
(b) Triangular
(c) Wide
(d) Arched

4. The narrator finds a pen for the blind man where in his house?
(a) In his desk drawer
(b) In the garage
(c) On the kitchen counter
(d) In a basket on his wife’s table

5. What does the blind man ask the narrator about the paintings on the walls of the church in the television show?
(a) If they are fresco
(b) If they are oil paintings
(c) If they are cubist
(d) If they are modernist

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. The narrator says in the beginning of the story that the last time his wife saw the blind man was when she worked for him in what city?

5. Where was Raymond Carver born?

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