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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator tell the blind man regarding the strength of the marijuana they are smoking?
(a) It is the best he’s ever smoked
(b) That it is mild
(c) That it is about average
(d) It is extremely weak

2. What is the blind man’s answer when the narrator’s wife asks if he has a TV?
(a) They annoy me
(b) My dear, I have two TVs
(c) I have never seen a TV in my life
(d) I prefer the radio

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

4. The narrator says that his wife first contacted the blind man after how much time had passed since she’d worked for him?
(a) 3 years
(b) 8 months
(c) 5 years
(d) 1 year

5. When the narrator’s wife first contacted the blind man after working for him, she called him from what state?
(a) Tennessee
(b) Indiana
(c) Alabama
(d) Missouri

Short Answer Questions

1. Of his knowledge of cathedrals, the blind man says that he knows from the television show that they took how many workers to build?

2. The blind man comments to the narrator as he draw the cathedral, “What’s a cathedral without” what?

3. Travis A.F.B. is described as being near what city in the short story?

4. The narrator says of the blind man that he’d done “a little bit of everything, it seemed, a regular” what?

5. What did the narrator’s wife’s first husband do when he found her after her overdose?

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