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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, the train ride from the blind man’s in-laws’ home to the narrator’s home takes how long?
(a) 5 hours
(b) 2 hours
(c) 9 hours
(d) 12 hours

2. What were the literary formats that Raymond Carver’s career was dedicated to?
(a) Novels and biographies
(b) Essays and memoirs
(c) Nonfiction histories and short stories
(d) Short stories and poetry

3. How is the narrator’s viewpoint of blind people characterized in the beginning of the story?
(a) He is empathetic with them
(b) He is prejudiced against them
(c) He is an advocate for them
(d) He is assimilated with them

4. What novelist was Raymond Carver’s mentor and teacher?
(a) John Gardner
(b) Horace Greeley
(c) Margaret Fuller
(d) Henry David Thoreau

5. The blind man tells the narrator as he continues his drawing of the cathedral, “You got it, bub. I can tell. You didn’t think you could. But you can, can’t you? You’re cooking with” what?
(a) Charcoal
(b) Dry tinder
(c) Gas now
(d) Grease

Short Answer Questions

1. What are in the bottom of the shopping bag that the narrator gathers for the blind man at night?

2. What does the narrator say causes him problems sleeping?

3. Regarding the view from the train, the narrator says, “going to New York, you should sit” where on the train?

4. Where does the blind man live?

5. 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”?

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