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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Irish actor does the blind man quote in saying “When I drink water, I drink water. When I drink whiskey, I drink whiskey”?
(a) Stuart Townsend
(b) Barry Fitzgerald
(c) Peter O’Toole
(d) Brendan Gleeson

2. The narrator surmises of the blind man’s wife that she could wear what in her nostril and it wouldn’t make a difference?
(a) A pencil
(b) An earring
(c) A straight pin
(d) A handkerchief

3. When the narrator’s wife first contacted the blind man after working for him, she called him from what state?
(a) Alabama
(b) Tennessee
(c) Indiana
(d) Missouri

4. 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) Italy
(b) Romania
(c) Denmark
(d) Finland

5. What term, often used to characterize Raymond Carver’s writing, refers to a style in which the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life are presented in unadorned language?
(a) Dirty realism
(b) Shocking truth
(c) Authentic virtue
(d) Pristine fiction

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator go to find a pen and paper when the blind man suggests it at night?

2. What kind of meat does the narrator’s wife serve for dinner in the story?

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

4. What is the narrator’s response when his wife asks as she comes downstairs, “What do I smell?”

5. Travis A.F.B. is described as being near what city in the short story?

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