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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term describes a movement where a literary or artistic work is set out to expose the essence or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts?
(a) Focused
(b) Critical
(c) Truism
(d) Minimalism

2. What is the blind man’s answer when the narrator’s wife asks if he has a TV?
(a) They annoy me
(b) I prefer the radio
(c) My dear, I have two TVs
(d) I have never seen a TV in my life

3. What does the narrator say his wife writes one or two of every year?
(a) Short stories
(b) Poems
(c) Essays
(d) Novels

4. Where does the narrator go to find a pen and paper when the blind man suggests it at night?
(a) To the nursery
(b) Upstairs
(c) To the bathroom
(d) To the basement

5. What does the narrator’s wife say when she awakens as the narrator is drawing a cathedral?
(a) Where are the children?
(b) What time is it? Why are you still awake?
(c) I’ve got to call my mother
(d) What are you doing? Tell me, I want to know

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the blind man’s wife die?

2. What word from the story refers to a hooded garment worn by monks?

3. How does the narrator describe the windows he draws on the cathedral in the story?

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

5. Where in Portugal does the television show feature a cathedral?

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