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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After hearing her name, the narrator asks his wife what question?
(a) Was his wife Canadian?
(b) Was his wife southern?
(c) Was his wife a Negro?
(d) Was his wife a Yankee?

2. When the narrator’s wife first contacted the blind man after working for him, she called him from what state?
(a) Tennessee
(b) Alabama
(c) Indiana
(d) Missouri

3. How does the narrator feel about the blind man’s visit in the beginning of the story?
(a) Apprehensive
(b) Excited
(c) Angry
(d) Unenthusiastic

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

5. What tool does the narrator note the blind man does not use after his arrival?
(a) Braille
(b) A cane
(c) A backhoe
(d) A wheelchair

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the blind man take from the backseat of the car when he and the narrator’s wife arrive at the narrator’s home?

2. What term, often used to characterize Raymond Carver’s writing, refers to a style in which the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life are presented in unadorned language?

3. The narrator states after the blind man’s arrival that he’d always thought what “were a must for the blind”?

4. Where does the narrator sit when he returns to the living room with a pen and paper?

5. What is the blind man’s answer when the narrator’s wife asks if he has a TV?

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