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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator finds a pen for the blind man where in his house?
(a) In the garage
(b) On the kitchen counter
(c) In his desk drawer
(d) In a basket on his wife’s table

2. What does the narrator’s wife say she is going to do upstairs as she exits, leaving the narrator and the blind man alone after dinner?
(a) Read a book
(b) Change into her robe
(c) Call a friend on the telephone
(d) Take a bath

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

4. The blind man tells the narrator when he arrives that he hadn’t been on a train in almost how long?
(a) 40 years
(b) 10 years
(c) 30 years
(d) 20 years

5. The narrator says that after the death of the blind man’s wife, he was left with half of what kind of coin?
(a) A ten-dollar New Zealand coin
(b) A twenty-peso Mexican coin
(c) A fifty-rupee Indian coin
(d) A fifty-dinar Algerian coin

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator’s wife commented to the blind man through their first correspondence that she loved her husband but she didn’t love what?

2. According to the narrator’s wife’s story, how did the blind man meet his wife?

3. What is the first thing the narrator says he draws in his attempt to recreate a cathedral for the blind man?

4. What instruction does the blind man give to the narrator as he draws the cathedral in the story?

5. Where in Portugal does the television show feature a cathedral?

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