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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator’s wife, how many people were in attendance at the blind man’s wedding?
(a) 17
(b) 4
(c) 25
(d) 2

2. What is playing on the television as the narrator’s wife exits upstairs in the story?
(a) The weather report
(b) A game show
(c) Entertainment news
(d) A late-night comedy show

3. Where does the narrator go to find a pen and paper when the blind man suggests it at night?
(a) To the nursery
(b) To the bathroom
(c) To the basement
(d) Upstairs

4. From what narrative perspective is the story of “Cathedral” relayed?
(a) Second-person omniscient point of view
(b) First-person limited point of view
(c) Third-person omniscient point of view
(d) Third-person limited point of view

5. Where in the narrative does the rising action begin?
(a) When the blind man arrives
(b) When the cathedral has been drawn
(c) When the wife gets divorced
(d) When the wife meets the blind man

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the protagonist of “Cathedral”?

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?

3. What is the narrator’s response when his wife asks as she comes downstairs, “What do I smell?”

4. After showing a cathedral in Portugal, the television show next travels to show a cathedral where?

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

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