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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Raymond Carver’s short story collection Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Published?
(a) 1985
(b) 1969
(c) 1976
(d) 1980

2. Where does the narrator sit when he returns to the living room with a pen and paper?
(a) On the floor
(b) On the sofa
(c) In a chair
(d) On the table

3. The narrator says of the blind man that he’d done “a little bit of everything, it seemed, a regular” what?
(a) Disabled explorer
(b) Barry Fitzgerald
(c) John Muir
(d) Blind jack-of-all-trades

4. “Cathedral” is a short story that is driven by what literary element?
(a) Irony
(b) Plot
(c) Setting
(d) Character

5. On the television show about the Church, the narrator describes a famous cathedral shown in what city?
(a) Warsaw
(b) Zurich
(c) Berlin
(d) Paris

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. For how many years were the blind man and his wife married before her health went rapidly in decline?

3. The narrator’s wife tells him early in the story, “if you had a friend, any friend, and the friend came to visit, I’d” what?

4. Where did Raymond Carver earn his Bachelor of Arts degree?

5. What term describes a movement where a literary or artistic work is set out to expose the essence or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts?

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