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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does the blind man ask the narrator as the narrator begins drawing the cathedral in the story?
(a) Where’s your wife when you need her, huh, bub?
(b) What kind of building are you drawing here, bub?
(c) Where are you going to put the steeple and the people, bub?
(d) Never thought anything like this could happen in your lifetime, did you, bub?

2. What kind of paper does the blind man ask the narrator to go get when they are talking late at night?
(a) Heavy paper
(b) Tissue paper
(c) Wax paper
(d) Typewriter paper

3. 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”?
(a) Romania
(b) Italy
(c) Denmark
(d) Finland

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

5. 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) Success
(b) Godliness
(c) The world
(d) Anything special

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the blind man do as the narrator attempts to explain cathedrals to him?

2. In what city did the blind man’s wife die?

3. How does the narrator instruct the blind man to smoke the marijuana in the story?

4. Where is McConnell A.F.B. located?

5. The narrator says, “I remembered having read somewhere that the blind didn’t smoke because, as speculation had it, they couldn’t” what?

(see the answer key)

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