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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What were the literary formats that Raymond Carver’s career was dedicated to?
(a) Nonfiction histories and short stories
(b) Novels and biographies
(c) Short stories and poetry
(d) Essays and memoirs

3. When does the narrator say his wife was to marry her fiancé when she worked for the blind man?
(a) On Christmas Eve
(b) At the beginning of summer
(c) At the end of the summer
(d) On Easter Sunday

4. How did the blind man’s wife die?
(a) She committed suicide
(b) She was in a car accident
(c) She died in childbirth
(d) She died of cancer

5. Where does the narrator spread out the pen and paper when he returns with it in the story?
(a) On the floor
(b) On the sofa
(c) On the kitchen counter
(d) On the coffee table

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The blind man tells the narrator when he arrives that he hadn’t been on a train in almost how long?

3. What term refers to the portion of a story that introduces the important background information, such as the narrator’s descriptions of his wife’s history with the blind man in “Cathedral”?

4. What vegetable does the narrator’s wife throw when she has an argument with the narrator in the beginning of the story?

5. After showing a cathedral in Portugal, the television show next travels to show a cathedral where?

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