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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the television show as the narrator works on his drawing of a cathedral in the story?
(a) It plays on mute
(b) It transitions to the desert
(c) It gets louder
(d) It goes off the air

2. What does the blind man instruct the narrator to do after he’s almost completed the drawing of the cathedral?
(a) To close his mouth
(b) To say a prayer
(c) To open his mind
(d) To close his eyes

3. The narrator says, “I remembered having read somewhere that the blind didn’t smoke because, as speculation had it, they couldn’t” what?
(a) Tell how other people did it
(b) Fully share the pleasure of it
(c) Avoid burning their faces
(d) See the smoke they exhaled

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

5. What was the last part of the blind man’s tape that the narrator heard when his wife played it for him?
(a) I can picture the type
(b) You can certainly do better
(c) From all you’ve said about him, I can only conclude—
(d) He sounds like a great man

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Raymond Carver’s first published book of poems?

2. How does the narrator describe the blind man’s shoulders after his arrival?

3. At what point in the story does the protagonist reach his major epiphany?

4. The narrator tells the blind man that sometimes cathedrals have “devils and such carved into the front. Sometimes” what?

5. What do the narrator and his wife offer the blind man as they smoke marijuana in the story?

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