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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where in Portugal does the television show feature a cathedral?
(a) Lisbon
(b) Pombal
(c) Coimbra
(d) Mira

2. The narrator tells the blind man that sometimes cathedrals have “devils and such carved into the front. Sometimes” what?
(a) Plants and animals
(b) Kings and bishops
(c) Peasants and thieves
(d) Lords and ladies

3. What does the narrator tell the blind man regarding the strength of the marijuana they are smoking?
(a) It is the best he’s ever smoked
(b) It is extremely weak
(c) That it is about average
(d) That it is mild

4. Of his knowledge of cathedrals, the blind man says that he knows from the television show that they took about how many years to build?
(a) 50-100
(b) 40-60
(c) 150-200
(d) 20-30

5. How does the narrator’s wife look at him when he turns on the television during the talk with the blind man after dinner?
(a) Enviously
(b) Thankfully
(c) With admiration
(d) With irritation

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in the beginning of the story, “My idea of blindness came from” what?

2. What does the blind man ask the narrator after giving prefacing it with, “Hey, listen. I hope you don’t mind my asking you. Can I ask you something? Let me ask you a simple question, yes or no”?

3. How does the narrator describe the windows he draws on the cathedral in the story?

4. When the narrator’s wife first contacted the blind man after working for him, she called him from what state?

5. What did the blind man ask the narrator’s wife if he could do on her last day working for him?

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