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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the narrator’s viewpoint of blind people characterized in the beginning of the story?
(a) He is empathetic with them
(b) He is an advocate for them
(c) He is assimilated with them
(d) He is prejudiced against them

2. Exasperated by his inability to explain a cathedral to the blind man, the narrator apologizes and says, “The truth is, cathedrals don’t mean” what to him?
(a) Anything special
(b) Godliness
(c) Success
(d) The world

3. What does the narrator describe as “little statues carved to look like monsters”?
(a) Gargoyles
(b) Trolls
(c) Phantoms
(d) Vampires

4. What word from the story refers to a bridge for carrying a road or railway across a valley, consisting of a set of arches supported by a row of piers or towers?
(a) Well
(b) Delta
(c) Viaduct
(d) Tunnel

5. The narrator says of the blind man that he’d done “a little bit of everything, it seemed, a regular” what?
(a) John Muir
(b) Blind jack-of-all-trades
(c) Barry Fitzgerald
(d) Disabled explorer

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states after the blind man’s arrival that he’d always thought what “were a must for the blind”?

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

3. Where does the blind man put his hand as the narrator begins to draw in the story?

4. What does the narrator’s wife say when she awakens as the narrator is drawing a cathedral?

5. In what year was “Cathedral” first published in a periodical?

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