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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about the blind man’s visit in the beginning of the story?
(a) Angry
(b) Apprehensive
(c) Unenthusiastic
(d) Excited

2. What was the last part of the blind man’s tape that the narrator heard when his wife played it for him?
(a) He sounds like a great man
(b) From all you’ve said about him, I can only conclude—
(c) I can picture the type
(d) You can certainly do better

3. What word from the story refers to a bridge for carrying a road or railway across a valley, consisting of a set of arches supported by a row of piers or towers?
(a) Well
(b) Tunnel
(c) Delta
(d) Viaduct

4. What do the narrator and his wife offer the blind man as they smoke marijuana in the story?
(a) More pie
(b) A pillow
(c) A cup of coffee
(d) A blanket

5. What does the narrator say that he, his wife, and the blind man did after scarfing down their dinner in the story?
(a) We wondered if each of us could keep it all down
(b) For a few moments, we sat as if stunned
(c) After that we could not even look at the pie
(d) We all wondered if anyone would take another serving

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many years were the blind man and his wife married before her health went rapidly in decline?

2. The blind man comments to the narrator as he draw the cathedral, “What’s a cathedral without” what?

3. What is the name of the blind man’s wife who recently passed away in the story?

4. What do the narrator and his wife drink when they sit down to talk with the blind man after he’s arrived?

5. What is the name of Raymond Carver’s first published book of poems?

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