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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator’s wife go to pick up her blind friend who comes to visit?
(a) The bus station
(b) The airport
(c) A museum
(d) The train station

2. The narrator tells the blind man that sometimes cathedrals have “devils and such carved into the front. Sometimes” what?
(a) Peasants and thieves
(b) Kings and bishops
(c) Plants and animals
(d) Lords and ladies

3. When the narrator’s wife first contacted the blind man after working for him, she called him from what facility?
(a) A train station
(b) A Navy Base
(c) An Air Force Base
(d) A hospital

4. What is the first thing the narrator says he draws in his attempt to recreate a cathedral for the blind man?
(a) A rickety old shack
(b) A tent of some kind
(c) A barn-like structure
(d) A box that looked like a house

5. Where did the narrator’s wife fall asleep after overdosing on pills while at Travis A.F.B.?
(a) In the bathtub
(b) In the basement
(c) On the patio
(d) In the garage

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the blind man going to visit his dead wife’s relatives in the beginning of the story?

3. Where did the other half of the coin go that the blind man was left with, according to the narrator?

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

5. What does the narrator give as a response to the narrator’s question of whether he was going to stay with his work?

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