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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the physicality of the blind man after his arrival?
(a) Heavy-set
(b) Frail
(c) Toned
(d) Muscle-bound

2. What is the blind man’s response when the narrator asks “if he wanted to smoke some dope with me”?
(a) I’ll try some with you
(b) You can roll some of mine
(c) I respectfully decline
(d) I thought you’d never ask

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

4. The narrator says that after the death of the blind man’s wife, he was left with half of what kind of coin?
(a) A ten-dollar New Zealand coin
(b) A fifty-rupee Indian coin
(c) A fifty-dinar Algerian coin
(d) A twenty-peso Mexican coin

5. What was the last part of the blind man’s tape that the narrator heard when his wife played it for him?
(a) You can certainly do better
(b) He sounds like a great man
(c) I can picture the type
(d) From all you’ve said about him, I can only conclude—

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the narrator tell the blind man the show about cathedrals has traveled to, where there are “paintings on the walls of this one church”?

3. Where was Raymond Carver born?

4. How many short stories are included in the anthology Cathedral?

5. Where did the other half of the coin go that the blind man was left with, according to the narrator?

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