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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator’s wife tells him early in the story, “if you had a friend, any friend, and the friend came to visit, I’d” what?
(a) Pretend to like him
(b) Get along with him
(c) Tell him some stories
(d) Make him feel comfortable

2. The blind man discusses his ham radio operator friends in “Guam, in the Philippines, in Alaska, and even” where?
(a) Bolivia
(b) Australia
(c) Tahiti
(d) Poland

3. In what city did the blind man’s wife die?
(a) San Antonio
(b) Sacramento
(c) Seattle
(d) Springfield

4. 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?
(a) Surfing on the waves of blindness
(b) Nothing else in my life up to now
(c) Crossing into another world
(d) Looking through the rainbow

5. What are the supports called on a cathedral that are built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts?
(a) Buttresses
(b) Crossbeams
(c) Trusses
(d) Pillars

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator’s final comment to the blind man in the story?

2. Regarding the view from the train, the narrator says, “going to New York, you should sit” where on the train?

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

4. In what year was the anthology entitled Cathedral published?

5. When the blind man asks the narrator to describe a cathedral to him, what is the first thing the narrator says?

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