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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the narrator changes the television channel, he says there is something about the Church and what era on?
(a) The Industrial Revolution
(b) The Computer Age
(c) The Middle Ages
(d) The Stone Age

2. What is the narrator’s prayer before dinner in the story?
(a) Pray the bills are paid and we wake up tomorrow
(b) Pray the phone won’t ring and the food doesn’t get cold
(c) Pray for Robert’s wife
(d) Pray for good weather and sound sleep

3. What term, often used to characterize Raymond Carver’s writing, refers to a style in which the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life are presented in unadorned language?
(a) Shocking truth
(b) Authentic virtue
(c) Dirty realism
(d) Pristine fiction

4. What question does the blind man ask the narrator as the narrator begins drawing the cathedral in the story?
(a) Never thought anything like this could happen in your lifetime, did you, bub?
(b) What kind of building are you drawing here, bub?
(c) Where’s your wife when you need her, huh, bub?
(d) Where are you going to put the steeple and the people, bub?

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the narrator’s wife go to pick up her blind friend who comes to visit?

3. The narrator says of the “officer-to-be” that he’d been his wife’s what?

4. 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?

5. What was the narrator’s response when the blind man asks if he likes his work?

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