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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator’s wife commented to the blind man through their first correspondence that she loved her husband but she didn’t love what?
(a) Where they lived
(b) Their children
(c) His sister
(d) His mother

2. What is the narrator’s response when his wife asks as she comes downstairs, “What do I smell?”
(a) Just incense my dear
(b) I needed a cigarette
(c) I don’t smell anything
(d) We thought we’d have us some cannabis

3. What does the narrator say about his and his wife’s sleeping patterns in the story?
(a) We always go to bed at the same time
(b) I am always the first to bed
(c) My wife and I hardly ever went to bed at the same time
(d) She is always the first to bed

4. What are the central motifs in “Cathedral”?
(a) Blood and music
(b) Marriage and weddings
(c) Strawberries and fruit
(d) Vision and blindness

5. The narrator says in the beginning of the story, “My idea of blindness came from” what?
(a) Word of mouth
(b) Church sermons
(c) Magazines
(d) The movies

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator admit he does not believe in when discussing matters with the blind man late at night in the story?

2. How does the narrator describe the windows he draws on the cathedral in the story?

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

4. What was the narrator’s response when the blind man asks if he likes his work?

5. The narrator states after the blind man’s arrival that he’d always thought what “were a must for the blind”?

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