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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is the blind man staying with the narrator and his wife in the story?
(a) 6 nights
(b) 3 nights
(c) 1 night
(d) 10 nights

2. What does the narrator see his wife doing as she parks the car when she returns with the blind man?
(a) Screaming
(b) Crying
(c) Holding his hand
(d) Laughing

3. What word from the story means large and heavy-looking?
(a) Derivative
(b) Massive
(c) Incremental
(d) Diminutive

4. Travis A.F.B. is described as being near what city in the short story?
(a) Sacramento
(b) Atlanta
(c) Atlantic City
(d) Kansas City

5. How does the narrator’s wife look at him when he turns on the television during the talk with the blind man after dinner?
(a) Enviously
(b) With irritation
(c) Thankfully
(d) With admiration

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator spread out the pen and paper when he returns with it in the story?

2. In what year was “Cathedral” first published in a periodical?

3. Of his knowledge of cathedrals, the blind man says that he knows from the television show that they took how many workers to build?

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

5. The blind man discusses his ham radio operator friends in “Guam, in the Philippines, in Alaska, and even” where?

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