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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator feels pity for the blind man when he considers that he lived with and loved his wife without ever having what?
(a) Seen her
(b) Touched her
(c) Listened to her
(d) Understood her

2. What does the narrator say his wife writes one or two of every year?
(a) Essays
(b) Short stories
(c) Novels
(d) Poems

3. What term refers to the portion of a story that introduces the important background information, such as the narrator’s descriptions of his wife’s history with the blind man in “Cathedral”?
(a) Denouement
(b) Rising action
(c) Climax
(d) Exposition

4. What is the narrator’s response when his wife asks as she comes downstairs, “What do I smell?”
(a) We thought we’d have us some cannabis
(b) Just incense my dear
(c) I needed a cigarette
(d) I don’t smell anything

5. When the blind man smokes his second hit of marijuana, the narrator says, “It was like he’d been doing this since he was” how old?
(a) Five years old
(b) Twelve years old
(c) Nine years old
(d) Sixteen years old

Short Answer Questions

1. The man that the narrator’s wife was going to marry when she worked for the blind man was in what kind of school?

2. The narrator says in the beginning of the story that the last time his wife saw the blind man was how many years ago?

3. The narrator says that the “was having a drink and” doing what when he “heard the car pull into the drive” with his wife and the blind man?

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

5. What kind of pie does the narrator’s wife serve at dinner?

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