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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the television show about the Church pans across the countryside, the narrator describes men walking behind what?
(a) Pigs
(b) Chickens
(c) Oxen
(d) Sheep

2. The blind man comments to the narrator as he draw the cathedral, “What’s a cathedral without” what?
(a) Priests
(b) Prayers
(c) Pews
(d) People

3. The narrator asks the blind man while they watch TV if he knows the difference between a cathedral and what?
(a) A Baptist church
(b) A Jewish synagogue
(c) A Catholic church
(d) An Islamic mosque

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

5. How many short stories are included in the anthology Cathedral?
(a) 12
(b) 7
(c) 4
(d) 5

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does the blind man ask the narrator as the narrator begins drawing the cathedral in the story?

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

3. Where did Raymond Carver earn his Bachelor of Arts degree?

4. What is the narrator’s final comment to the blind man in the story?

5. Who is the protagonist of “Cathedral”?

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