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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is another word for “arc-boutant” used in the story?
(a) Spire
(b) Flying buttress
(c) Crown
(d) Viaduct

2. The man that the narrator’s wife was going to marry when she worked for the blind man was in what kind of school?
(a) Construction school
(b) Truck driving school
(c) Officers’ training school
(d) Electrician school

3. What does the narrator do when the blind man says after the drawing is complete, “Take a look. What do you think?”
(a) He keeps his eyes closed
(b) He begins to weep
(c) He looks at the drawing
(d) He calls for his wife

4. By what familyar nickname does the blind man call the narrator?
(a) Senor
(b) Bub
(c) Bro
(d) Dude

5. At the end of the story, the narrator says, “I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn’t feel like I was” what?
(a) Physically there
(b) Imagining anything
(c) Inside anything
(d) In my right mind

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator spread out the pen and paper when he returns with it in the story?

2. What does the narrator describe as “little statues carved to look like monsters”?

3. What color is all of the blind man’s attire when he arrives?

4. The narrator asks the blind man while they watch TV if he knows the difference between a cathedral and what?

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

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