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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 that his wife first contacted the blind man after how much time had passed since she’d worked for him?
(a) 1 year
(b) 8 months
(c) 5 years
(d) 3 years

2. Where does the narrator tell the blind man the show about cathedrals has traveled to, where there are “paintings on the walls of this one church”?
(a) Finland
(b) Italy
(c) Romania
(d) Denmark

3. Who is the protagonist of “Cathedral”?
(a) Barry Fitzgerald
(b) The narrator
(c) The narrator’s wife
(d) Robert

4. What does the narrator admit he does not believe in when discussing matters with the blind man late at night in the story?
(a) Beauty
(b) Anything
(c) Humanity
(d) The Devil

5. Where is the blind man going to visit his dead wife’s relatives in the beginning of the story?
(a) Oregon
(b) Connecticut
(c) Alaska
(d) Alabama

Short Answer Questions

1. When the blind man appears to snooze during his conversation with the narrator, the narrator assumes that perhaps he’s imagining himself where?

2. What does the narrator describe to the blind man as the things that are tormenting the monks on the television show?

3. How does the narrator instruct the blind man to smoke the marijuana in the story?

4. Of his knowledge of cathedrals, the blind man says that he knows from the television show that they took about how many years to build?

5. What does the blind man take from the backseat of the car when he and the narrator’s wife arrive at the narrator’s home?

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