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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator’s wife, how many people were in attendance at the blind man’s wedding?
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 17
(d) 25

2. What central theme unites the main characters in “Cathedral”?
(a) Maternal love
(b) Overreaching ambition
(c) Lust
(d) Alienation

3. What question does the blind man ask the narrator as the narrator begins drawing the cathedral in the story?
(a) Where’s your wife when you need her, huh, bub?
(b) Where are you going to put the steeple and the people, bub?
(c) What kind of building are you drawing here, bub?
(d) Never thought anything like this could happen in your lifetime, did you, bub?

4. In his attempt to describe cathedrals, the narrator tells the blind man that they are built out of stone and sometimes out of what?
(a) Marble
(b) Granite
(c) Slate
(d) Sandstone

5. What does the narrator’s wife say when she awakens as the narrator is drawing a cathedral?
(a) I’ve got to call my mother
(b) Where are the children?
(c) What time is it? Why are you still awake?
(d) What are you doing? Tell me, I want to know

Short Answer Questions

1. In what periodical did “Cathedral” first appear?

2. 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”?

3. How does the narrator’s wife look at him when he turns on the television during the talk with the blind man after dinner?

4. What kind of meat does the narrator’s wife serve for dinner in the story?

5. In what year was the anthology entitled Cathedral published?

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