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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. “Cathedral” is a short story that is driven by what literary element?
(a) Setting
(b) Character
(c) Irony
(d) Plot

3. What is the name of Raymond Carver’s first published book of poems?
(a) Near Klamath
(b) Along the beach
(c) Among the Redwoods
(d) Surrounding Mountains

4. What word from the story means large and heavy-looking?
(a) Incremental
(b) Massive
(c) Derivative
(d) Diminutive

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What beverage does the blind man drink with his dinner in the story?

2. What tool does the narrator note the blind man does not use after his arrival?

3. When was Raymond Carver’s short story collection Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Published?

4. What kind of paper does the blind man ask the narrator to go get when they are talking late at night?

5. What does the narrator see his wife doing as she parks the car when she returns with the blind man?

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