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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long ago does the narrator’s wife say she and her husband bought their sofa?
(a) 4 days ago
(b) 2 weeks ago
(c) 3 years ago
(d) 6 weeks ago

2. What does the narrator say about his and his wife’s sleeping patterns in the story?
(a) We always go to bed at the same time
(b) I am always the first to bed
(c) My wife and I hardly ever went to bed at the same time
(d) She is always the first to bed

3. What vegetable does the narrator’s wife throw when she has an argument with the narrator in the beginning of the story?
(a) A potato
(b) A cucumber
(c) A pepper
(d) A carrot

4. The blind man asks the narrator’s wife if he looks what, when he meets her husband?
(a) Disinterested
(b) Disheveled
(c) Displaced
(d) Distinguished

5. What novelist was Raymond Carver’s mentor and teacher?
(a) Henry David Thoreau
(b) Margaret Fuller
(c) John Gardner
(d) Horace Greeley

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator’s response when his wife asks as she comes downstairs, “What do I smell?”

2. What is another word for “arc-boutant” used in the story?

3. Where does the narrator’s wife go to pick up her blind friend who comes to visit?

4. The narrator says in the beginning of the story that the last time his wife saw the blind man was when she worked for him in what city?

5. When the narrator changes the television channel, he says there is something about the Church and what era on?

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