1. What term describes a movement where a literary or artistic work is set out to expose the essence or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts?
(a) Focused
(b) Critical
(c) Truism
(d) Minimalism

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

3. What does the blind man instruct the narrator to do after he’s almost completed the drawing of the cathedral?
(a) To close his mouth
(b) To say a prayer
(c) To close his eyes
(d) To open his mind

4. When the television show about the Church pans across the countryside, the narrator describes men walking behind what?
(a) Chickens
(b) Sheep
(c) Oxen
(d) Pigs

5. 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”?
(a) He asks if the narrator is true to his wife
(b) He asks if the narrator is religious
(c) He asks if the narrator is a dog lover
(d) He asks if the narrator is a sports fan

Short Answer Questions

1. As the narrator continues his drawing of the cathedral, he comments near the end of the story, “His fingers rode my fingers as my hand went over the paper. It was like” what?

2. On the television show about the Church, the narrator describes a famous cathedral shown in what city?

3. How does the narrator describe the blind man’s attire when he arrives?

4. After hearing her name, the narrator asks his wife what question?

5. What is the blind man’s name in the story?

(see the answer key)

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