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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 thought you’d never ask
(d) I’ll try some with you

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?
(a) Truck driving school
(b) Officers’ training school
(c) Electrician school
(d) Construction school

4. When was Raymond Carver’s short story collection Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Published?
(a) 1980
(b) 1976
(c) 1969
(d) 1985

5. What is the blind man’s name in the story?
(a) Robert
(b) William
(c) Marcus
(d) Jacob

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of paper does the blind man ask the narrator to go get when they are talking late at night?

2. How did the narrator’s wife’s first marriage end?

3. The narrator says of the blind man’s employment that most recently he and his wife had had what kind of distributorship?

4. What term describes a movement where a literary or artistic work is set out to expose the essence or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts?

5. What are the supports called on a cathedral that are built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts?

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