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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Raymond Carver born?
(a) 1938
(b) 1959
(c) 1944
(d) 1927

2. Regarding the view from the train, the narrator says, “going to New York, you should sit” where on the train?
(a) In the back
(b) On the right side
(c) In the front
(d) On the left side

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. 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?
(a) Listening to the radio
(b) Doing a crossword puzzle
(c) Reading the paper
(d) Watching TV

5. 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) Pristine fiction
(d) Dirty realism

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the literary formats that Raymond Carver’s career was dedicated to?

2. What is the narrator’s final comment to the blind man in the story?

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

4. For how many years were the blind man and his wife married before her health went rapidly in decline?

5. On the television show about the Church, the narrator describes a famous cathedral shown in what city?

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