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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Exasperated by his inability to explain a cathedral to the blind man, the narrator apologizes and says, “The truth is, cathedrals don’t mean” what to him?
(a) The world
(b) Godliness
(c) Anything special
(d) Success

3. What is another word for “arc-boutant” used in the story?
(a) Spire
(b) Viaduct
(c) Flying buttress
(d) Crown

4. When was Raymond Carver’s short story collection Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Published?
(a) 1969
(b) 1985
(c) 1980
(d) 1976

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) Thankfully
(b) With irritation
(c) Enviously
(d) With admiration

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the physicality of the blind man after his arrival?

2. What instruction does the blind man give to the narrator as he draws the cathedral in the story?

3. How old does the narrator describe the blind man as being?

4. Where does the blind man put his hand as the narrator begins to draw in the story?

5. The blind man tells the narrator when he arrives that he hadn’t been on a train in almost how long?

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