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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator’s wife, how many people were in attendance at the blind man’s wedding?
(a) 4
(b) 2
(c) 17
(d) 25

2. What was the narrator’s response when the blind man asks if he likes his work?
(a) I was growing to love it
(b) I loved it
(c) I didn’t
(d) I despised it

3. From what narrative perspective is the story of “Cathedral” relayed?
(a) First-person limited point of view
(b) Third-person omniscient point of view
(c) Second-person omniscient point of view
(d) Third-person limited point of view

4. The narrator asks the blind man while they watch TV if he knows the difference between a cathedral and what?
(a) A Catholic church
(b) An Islamic mosque
(c) A Baptist church
(d) A Jewish synagogue

5. What is the narrator’s final comment to the blind man in the story?
(a) You are great
(b) It’s really something
(c) I would have never believed it
(d) I never could have imagined

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the blind man instruct the narrator to do after he’s almost completed the drawing of the cathedral?

2. Exasperated by his inability to explain a cathedral to the blind man, the narrator apologizes and says, “The truth is, cathedrals don’t mean” what to him?

3. At what point in the story does the protagonist reach his major epiphany?

4. What does the narrator say causes him problems sleeping?

5. What word from the story refers to a bridge for carrying a road or railway across a valley, consisting of a set of arches supported by a row of piers or towers?

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