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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. What word from the story refers to a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or roof-like construction upon a tower?
(a) Dome
(b) Bluff
(c) Spire
(d) Mesa

3. The narrator says of the blind man that he’d done “a little bit of everything, it seemed, a regular” what?
(a) Blind jack-of-all-trades
(b) Disabled explorer
(c) John Muir
(d) Barry Fitzgerald

4. What are in the bottom of the shopping bag that the narrator gathers for the blind man at night?
(a) Marshmallows
(b) Coupons
(c) Coffee beans
(d) Onion skins

5. What slang term does the blind man use at the end of the story to mean “to lie”?
(a) Fib
(b) Slander
(c) Fudge
(d) Evasion

Short Answer Questions

1. On the television show about the Church, the narrator describes a famous cathedral shown in what city?

2. The narrator says that after the death of the blind man’s wife, he was left with half of what kind of coin?

3. Where does the blind man live?

4. What color are the narrator’s wife’s robe and slippers?

5. The narrator surmises of the blind man’s wife that she could wear what in her nostril and it wouldn’t make a difference?

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