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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the blind man ask the narrator’s wife if he could do on her last day working for him?
(a) Hear her sing
(b) Read a book to him
(c) Kiss her on the cheek
(d) Touch her face

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

3. When the narrator changes the television channel, he says there is something about the Church and what era on?
(a) The Middle Ages
(b) The Stone Age
(c) The Industrial Revolution
(d) The Computer Age

4. What word from the story means large and heavy-looking?
(a) Diminutive
(b) Derivative
(c) Incremental
(d) Massive

5. What does the narrator say causes him problems sleeping?
(a) His wife’s snoring
(b) A sore throat
(c) Dreams
(d) A bad smell

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the narrator tell the blind man the show about cathedrals has traveled to, where there are “paintings on the walls of this one church”?

3. When does the narrator say his wife was to marry her fiancé when she worked for the blind man?

4. 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?

5. How long ago does the narrator’s wife say she and her husband bought their sofa?

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