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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the blind man going to visit his dead wife’s relatives in the beginning of the story?
(a) Alaska
(b) Alabama
(c) Connecticut
(d) Oregon

2. The narrator’s wife commented to the blind man through their first correspondence that she loved her husband but she didn’t love what?
(a) Where they lived
(b) His mother
(c) His sister
(d) Their children

3. What does the narrator’s wife say when she awakens as the narrator is drawing a cathedral?
(a) Where are the children?
(b) What are you doing? Tell me, I want to know
(c) What time is it? Why are you still awake?
(d) I’ve got to call my mother

4. The narrator states after the blind man’s arrival that he’d always thought what “were a must for the blind”?
(a) Dark glasses
(b) Scarves
(c) Walking poles
(d) Sandals

5. The narrator surmises of the blind man’s wife that she could wear what color eye-shadow around one eye and it wouldn’t make a difference?
(a) Silver
(b) Black
(c) Green
(d) White

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was “Cathedral” chosen to appear in The Best American Short Stories?

2. At what point in the story does the protagonist reach his major epiphany?

3. Along what river does the narrator describe the train going on the route from his home to New York?

4. Where does the narrator sit when he returns to the living room with a pen and paper?

5. The narrator tells the blind man, “In those olden days, when they built cathedrals, men wanted to be” what?

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