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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Regarding the view from the train, the narrator says, “going to New York, you should sit” where on the train?
(a) In the back
(b) On the right side
(c) In the front
(d) On the left side

2. Of the blind man’s eyes, the narrator says there’s too much white where?
(a) In the pupil
(b) In the retina
(c) In the cornea
(d) In the iris

3. The blind man comments to the narrator as he draw the cathedral, “What’s a cathedral without” what?
(a) Priests
(b) Prayers
(c) People
(d) Pews

4. According to the narrator’s wife’s story, how did the blind man meet his wife?
(a) She sat next to him on a bus
(b) She worked for him
(c) She volunteered at her church
(d) She would see him at the library

5. What was the last part of the blind man’s tape that the narrator heard when his wife played it for him?
(a) From all you’ve said about him, I can only conclude—
(b) He sounds like a great man
(c) I can picture the type
(d) You can certainly do better

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says of the blind man’s employment that most recently he and his wife had had what kind of distributorship?

2. In what year was “Cathedral” first published in a periodical?

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

4. Of his knowledge of cathedrals, the blind man says that he knows from the television show that they took how many workers to build?

5. Where does the narrator spread out the pen and paper when he returns with it in the story?

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