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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 volunteered at her church
(c) She would see him at the library
(d) She worked for him

3. What do the narrator and his wife offer the blind man as they smoke marijuana in the story?
(a) A cup of coffee
(b) More pie
(c) A blanket
(d) A pillow

4. How is the narrator’s viewpoint of blind people characterized in the beginning of the story?
(a) He is assimilated with them
(b) He is an advocate for them
(c) He is empathetic with them
(d) He is prejudiced against them

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says, “I remembered having read somewhere that the blind didn’t smoke because, as speculation had it, they couldn’t” what?

2. What is playing on the television as the narrator’s wife exits upstairs in the story?

3. Where does the narrator’s wife fall asleep after they’ve smoked marijuana?

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

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

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