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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 “officer-to-be” that he’d been his wife’s what?
(a) Familial enemy
(b) Cousin
(c) School rival
(d) Childhood sweetheart

2. When the blind man asks the narrator to describe a cathedral to him, what is the first thing the narrator says?
(a) To begin with, they’re very tall
(b) You can’t look at one without seeing the arches
(c) They have a very broad foundation
(d) The first things you notice are the intricate details

3. What tool does the narrator note the blind man does not use after his arrival?
(a) A wheelchair
(b) A cane
(c) A backhoe
(d) Braille

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

5. Exasperated by his inability to explain a cathedral to the blind man, the narrator apologizes and says, “The truth is, cathedrals don’t mean” what to him?
(a) Godliness
(b) Anything special
(c) The world
(d) Success

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. At what point in the story does the protagonist reach his major epiphany?

3. When the narrator’s wife first contacted the blind man after working for him, she called him from what state?

4. What does the blind man remark about the narrator’s television set, saying, “Don’t ask me how, but I can tell”?

5. The narrator says in the beginning of the story that the last time his wife saw the blind man was how many years ago?

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