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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what familyar nickname does the blind man call the narrator?
(a) Senor
(b) Dude
(c) Bub
(d) Bro

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

3. Of his knowledge of cathedrals, the blind man says that he knows from the television show that they took about how many years to build?
(a) 40-60
(b) 50-100
(c) 20-30
(d) 150-200

4. What does the blind man ask the narrator after giving prefacing it with, “Hey, listen. I hope you don’t mind my asking you. Can I ask you something? Let me ask you a simple question, yes or no”?
(a) He asks if the narrator is a sports fan
(b) He asks if the narrator is a dog lover
(c) He asks if the narrator is religious
(d) He asks if the narrator is true to his wife

5. The blind man tells the narrator when he arrives that he hadn’t been on a train in almost how long?
(a) 40 years
(b) 20 years
(c) 10 years
(d) 30 years

Short Answer Questions

1. “Cathedral” is a short story that is driven by what literary element?

2. How is the narrator’s viewpoint of blind people characterized in the beginning of the story?

3. What does the blind man instruct the narrator to do after he’s almost completed the drawing of the cathedral?

4. The narrator says of the “officer-to-be” that he’d been his wife’s what?

5. What does the blind man say “never ends” in the story?

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