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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What drink does the blind man ask for when the narrator offers him one after his arrival?
(a) Scotch
(b) Vodka
(c) Tequila
(d) Rum

2. When the television show about the Church pans across the countryside, the narrator describes men walking behind what?
(a) Sheep
(b) Oxen
(c) Pigs
(d) Chickens

3. Travis A.F.B. is described as being near what city in the short story?
(a) Atlantic City
(b) Kansas City
(c) Atlanta
(d) Sacramento

4. What word from the story refers to a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or roof-like construction upon a tower?
(a) Bluff
(b) Dome
(c) Mesa
(d) Spire

5. What is the blind man’s response when the narrator asks “if he wanted to smoke some dope with me”?
(a) You can roll some of mine
(b) I thought you’d never ask
(c) I’ll try some with you
(d) I respectfully decline

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the blind man do as the narrator attempts to explain cathedrals to him?

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. On the television show about the Church, the narrator describes a famous cathedral shown in what city?

4. What are the supports called on a cathedral that are built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts?

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

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