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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, “I remembered having read somewhere that the blind didn’t smoke because, as speculation had it, they couldn’t” what?
(a) Fully share the pleasure of it
(b) See the smoke they exhaled
(c) Avoid burning their faces
(d) Tell how other people did it

2. How does the narrator describe the blind man’s facial hair?
(a) He has a handlebar mustache
(b) He has a full beard
(c) He has muttonchops
(d) He has a goatee

3. Along what river does the narrator describe the train going on the route from his home to New York?
(a) The Green River
(b) The Niagara River
(c) The Hudson River
(d) The Snake River

4. What artistic forms are addressed in “Cathedral”?
(a) Novel writing and music
(b) Drama and music
(c) Poetry and drawing
(d) Sculpture and dance

5. What instruction does the blind man give to the narrator as he draws the cathedral in the story?
(a) Draw slowly
(b) Fill in all the details
(c) Lightly now
(d) Press hard

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the blind man say “never ends” in the story?

2. What was the last part of the blind man’s tape that the narrator heard when his wife played it for him?

3. From what narrative perspective is the story of “Cathedral” relayed?

4. 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”?

5. The blind man asks the narrator’s wife if he looks what, when he meets her husband?

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