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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Exasperated by his inability to explain a cathedral to the blind man, the narrator apologizes and says, “The truth is, cathedrals don’t mean” what to him?
(a) Godliness
(b) The world
(c) Success
(d) Anything special

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

3. Where in the narrative does the rising action begin?
(a) When the wife gets divorced
(b) When the blind man arrives
(c) When the wife meets the blind man
(d) When the cathedral has been drawn

4. Why does the narrator’s wife say she shouldn’t be smoking this when she is passed the joint in the story?
(a) It is the devil’s weed
(b) I could get drug tested
(c) I can barely keep my eyes open as it is
(d) It makes me too talkative

5. What does the narrator admit he does not believe in when discussing matters with the blind man late at night in the story?
(a) Humanity
(b) The Devil
(c) Anything
(d) Beauty

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator surmises of the blind man’s wife that she could wear what color eye-shadow around one eye and it wouldn’t make a difference?

2. How long ago does the narrator say his wife offered to let him listen to a tape from the blind man in the beginning of the story?

3. When the television show about the Church pans across the countryside, the narrator describes men walking behind what?

4. 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”?

5. In his attempt to describe cathedrals, the narrator tells the blind man that they are built out of stone and sometimes out of what?

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