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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says of the blind man’s employment that most recently he and his wife had had what kind of distributorship?
(a) Electronics
(b) Amway
(c) Safeway
(d) Automobile

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

3. Travis A.F.B. is described as being near what city in the short story?
(a) Atlanta
(b) Kansas City
(c) Atlantic City
(d) Sacramento

4. The narrator says of the “officer-to-be” that he’d been his wife’s what?
(a) Familial enemy
(b) Cousin
(c) Childhood sweetheart
(d) School rival

5. Where is Moody A.F.B. located?
(a) Kansas
(b) Georgia
(c) California
(d) New Jersey

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the story means large and heavy-looking?

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

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

4. Where is Travis A.F.B. located?

5. The narrator says of the blind man that he’d done “a little bit of everything, it seemed, a regular” what?

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