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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Cathedral.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The narrator feels pity for the blind man when he considers that he lived with and loved his wife without ever having what?
(a) Seen her
(b) Understood her
(c) Listened to her
(d) Touched her
2. How did the narrator’s wife’s first marriage end?
(a) She and her husband got divorced
(b) Her husband committed suicide
(c) Her husband was incarcerated
(d) Her husband was murdered
3. According to the narrator, his wife had helped the blind man organize his little office where when she worked for him?
(a) A large bank
(b) A grocery store
(c) The Internal Revenue Service
(d) The county social service department
4. What is the first thing the narrator says he draws in his attempt to recreate a cathedral for the blind man?
(a) A barn-like structure
(b) A tent of some kind
(c) A rickety old shack
(d) A box that looked like a house
5. What term describes a movement where a literary or artistic work is set out to expose the essence or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts?
(a) Truism
(b) Focused
(c) Minimalism
(d) Critical
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does the narrator tell the blind man the show about cathedrals has traveled to, where there are “paintings on the walls of this one church”?
2. Where is the blind man going to visit his dead wife’s relatives in the beginning of the story?
3. What term, often used to characterize Raymond Carver’s writing, refers to a style in which the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life are presented in unadorned language?
4. What does the narrator describe to the blind man as the things that are tormenting the monks on the television show?
5. 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?
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