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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 describe the blind man’s facial hair?
(a) He has a goatee
(b) He has muttonchops
(c) He has a full beard
(d) He has a handlebar mustache

2. At what point in the story does the protagonist reach his major epiphany?
(a) After dinner
(b) When his wife arrives home
(c) When he closes his eyes
(d) When he turns on the TV

3. What is the blind man’s answer when the narrator’s wife asks if he has a TV?
(a) I have never seen a TV in my life
(b) My dear, I have two TVs
(c) They annoy me
(d) I prefer the radio

4. The narrator says that after the death of the blind man’s wife, he was left with half of what kind of coin?
(a) A ten-dollar New Zealand coin
(b) A fifty-rupee Indian coin
(c) A twenty-peso Mexican coin
(d) A fifty-dinar Algerian coin

5. In what year was the anthology entitled Cathedral published?
(a) 1947
(b) 1974
(c) 1983
(d) 1962

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Raymond Carver’s short story collection Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Published?

3. What word from the story means large and heavy-looking?

4. When does the narrator say his wife was to marry her fiancé when she worked for the blind man?

5. What slang term does the blind man use at the end of the story to mean “to lie”?

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