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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the narrator’s wife’s first marriage end?
(a) Her husband committed suicide
(b) Her husband was incarcerated
(c) Her husband was murdered
(d) She and her husband got divorced

2. How long is the blind man staying with the narrator and his wife in the story?
(a) 1 night
(b) 6 nights
(c) 3 nights
(d) 10 nights

3. The narrator tells the blind man, “In those olden days, when they built cathedrals, men wanted to be” what?
(a) Shielded from the weather
(b) Close to God
(c) Proud of something
(d) Different from each other

4. What are the central motifs in “Cathedral”?
(a) Marriage and weddings
(b) Strawberries and fruit
(c) Vision and blindness
(d) Blood and music

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator’s wife fall asleep after they’ve smoked marijuana?

2. Where did the narrator’s wife fall asleep after overdosing on pills while at Travis A.F.B.?

3. Where in the narrative does the rising action begin?

4. How is the narrator’s viewpoint of blind people characterized in the beginning of the story?

5. In what periodical did “Cathedral” first appear?

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