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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the narrator and his wife offer the blind man as they smoke marijuana in the story?
(a) More pie
(b) A pillow
(c) A cup of coffee
(d) A blanket

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

3. How does the narrator instruct the blind man to smoke the marijuana in the story?
(a) Don’t take too much
(b) Inhale slowly
(c) Don’t punish yourself
(d) Hold it as long as you can

4. In his attempt to describe cathedrals, the narrator tells the blind man that they are built out of stone and sometimes out of what?
(a) Slate
(b) Marble
(c) Granite
(d) Sandstone

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the story refers to a hooded garment worn by monks?

2. What word from the story refers to a bridge for carrying a road or railway across a valley, consisting of a set of arches supported by a row of piers or towers?

3. What novelist was Raymond Carver’s mentor and teacher?

4. What was the narrator’s wife’s position when she worked for the blind man?

5. By what familyar nickname does the blind man call the narrator?

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