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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The blind man asks the narrator’s wife if he looks what, when he meets her husband?
(a) Displaced
(b) Distinguished
(c) Disheveled
(d) Disinterested

2. How does the narrator feel about the blind man’s visit in the beginning of the story?
(a) Unenthusiastic
(b) Apprehensive
(c) Angry
(d) Excited

3. What does the narrator’s wife say she is going to do upstairs as she exits, leaving the narrator and the blind man alone after dinner?
(a) Call a friend on the telephone
(b) Take a bath
(c) Read a book
(d) Change into her robe

4. Where is McGuire A.F.B. located?
(a) Georgia
(b) California
(c) Kansas
(d) New Jersey

5. The narrator says of the “officer-to-be” that he’d been his wife’s what?
(a) Cousin
(b) Familial enemy
(c) Childhood sweetheart
(d) School rival

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the literary formats that Raymond Carver’s career was dedicated to?

2. How is the narrator’s viewpoint of blind people characterized in the beginning of the story?

3. Where does the narrator’s wife go to pick up her blind friend who comes to visit?

4. What does the narrator say his wife writes one or two of every year?

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

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