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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the supports called on a cathedral that are built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts?
(a) Trusses
(b) Pillars
(c) Buttresses
(d) Crossbeams

2. What does the narrator tell the blind man regarding the strength of the marijuana they are smoking?
(a) It is the best he’s ever smoked
(b) That it is about average
(c) It is extremely weak
(d) That it is mild

3. What do the narrator and his wife drink when they sit down to talk with the blind man after he’s arrived?
(a) Brandy
(b) Absinthe
(c) Scotch
(d) Tequila

4. Who is the protagonist of “Cathedral”?
(a) The narrator’s wife
(b) Barry Fitzgerald
(c) The narrator
(d) Robert

5. As the narrator continues his drawing of the cathedral, he comments near the end of the story, “His fingers rode my fingers as my hand went over the paper. It was like” what?
(a) Surfing on the waves of blindness
(b) Nothing else in my life up to now
(c) Crossing into another world
(d) Looking through the rainbow

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes his legs as feeling as though he’s just done what when he gets up to look for a pen and paper?

2. What happens to the television show as the narrator works on his drawing of a cathedral in the story?

3. In his attempt to describe cathedrals, the narrator tells the blind man that they are built out of stone and sometimes out of what?

4. 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?

5. How did the blind man’s wife die?

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