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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator’s wife fall asleep after they’ve smoked marijuana?
(a) On the floor
(b) In the bathtub
(c) In the chair
(d) On the couch

2. 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) Denmark
(c) Italy
(d) Finland

3. What is the narrator’s final comment to the blind man in the story?
(a) You are great
(b) I never could have imagined
(c) I would have never believed it
(d) It’s really something

4. The narrator’s wife tells him early in the story, “if you had a friend, any friend, and the friend came to visit, I’d” what?
(a) Get along with him
(b) Pretend to like him
(c) Tell him some stories
(d) Make him feel comfortable

5. After hearing her name, the narrator asks his wife what question?
(a) Was his wife southern?
(b) Was his wife Canadian?
(c) Was his wife a Yankee?
(d) Was his wife a Negro?

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the blind man’s name in the story?

2. What word from the story refers to a hooded garment worn by monks?

3. The narrator says in the beginning of the story, “My idea of blindness came from” what?

4. What does the protagonist in “Cathedral” gain by the end of the story?

5. For what literary genre is author Raymond Carver most well known?

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