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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how many years were the blind man and his wife married before her health went rapidly in decline?
(a) 13
(b) 8
(c) 5
(d) 3

2. What did the narrator’s wife wash down all the pills from the medicine cabinet with while she was at Travis A.F.B.?
(a) A glass of orange juice
(b) A shot of whiskey
(c) A bottle of gin
(d) A carton of milk

3. The narrator says, “I remembered having read somewhere that the blind didn’t smoke because, as speculation had it, they couldn’t” what?
(a) Fully share the pleasure of it
(b) Avoid burning their faces
(c) Tell how other people did it
(d) See the smoke they exhaled

4. How long ago does the narrator’s wife say she and her husband bought their sofa?
(a) 3 years ago
(b) 2 weeks ago
(c) 6 weeks ago
(d) 4 days ago

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the narrator’s wife fall asleep after overdosing on pills while at Travis A.F.B.?

2. Where does the narrator sit when he returns to the living room with a pen and paper?

3. How many joints does the narrator roll for him and the blind man while his wife is upstairs?

4. What are the central motifs in “Cathedral”?

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

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