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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The blind man comments to the narrator as he draw the cathedral, “What’s a cathedral without” what?
(a) Priests
(b) Pews
(c) People
(d) Prayers

2. In what periodical did “Cathedral” first appear?
(a) Readers Digest
(b) Harper's Magazine
(c) The Atlantic Monthly
(d) The Pastel Journal

3. What is the blind man’s response when the narrator asks “if he wanted to smoke some dope with me”?
(a) You can roll some of mine
(b) I respectfully decline
(c) I’ll try some with you
(d) I thought you’d never ask

4. The blind man asks the narrator’s wife if he looks what, when he meets her husband?
(a) Displaced
(b) Distinguished
(c) Disinterested
(d) Disheveled

5. What word from the story means large and heavy-looking?
(a) Massive
(b) Derivative
(c) Incremental
(d) Diminutive

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the blind man instruct the narrator to do after he’s almost completed the drawing of the cathedral?

2. What does the narrator say about his and his wife’s sleeping patterns in the story?

3. 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?

4. What vegetable does the narrator’s wife throw when she has an argument with the narrator in the beginning of the story?

5. How does the narrator describe the physicality of the blind man after his arrival?

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