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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator instruct the blind man to smoke the marijuana in the story?
(a) Don’t punish yourself
(b) Hold it as long as you can
(c) Inhale slowly
(d) Don’t take too much

2. What does the narrator give as a response to the narrator’s question of whether he was going to stay with his work?
(a) It would be hard to take a pay cut
(b) What were the options?
(c) It pays the bills
(d) I haven’t had any other offers

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

4. Where does the narrator go to find a pen and paper when the blind man suggests it at night?
(a) To the basement
(b) Upstairs
(c) To the bathroom
(d) To the nursery

5. In what year was “Cathedral” chosen to appear in The Best American Short Stories?
(a) 1982
(b) 1987
(c) 1991
(d) 1975

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in the beginning of the story that the last time his wife saw the blind man was when she worked for him in what city?

2. The narrator surmises of the blind man’s wife that she could wear what color eye-shadow around one eye and it wouldn’t make a difference?

3. 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?

4. At the end of the story, the narrator says, “I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn’t feel like I was” what?

5. The narrator says of the “officer-to-be” that he’d been his wife’s what?

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