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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’s wife look at him when he turns on the television during the talk with the blind man after dinner?
(a) Enviously
(b) With admiration
(c) With irritation
(d) Thankfully

2. What does the blind man take from his back pocket as he and the narrator are talking and watching television late at night?
(a) A book
(b) A bag
(c) A wallet
(d) A handkerchief

3. What is the first thing the narrator says he draws in his attempt to recreate a cathedral for the blind man?
(a) A rickety old shack
(b) A box that looked like a house
(c) A barn-like structure
(d) A tent of some kind

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

5. The narrator says in the beginning of the story, “My idea of blindness came from” what?
(a) Word of mouth
(b) Church sermons
(c) Magazines
(d) The movies

Short Answer Questions

1. The blind man asks the narrator’s wife if he looks what, when he meets her husband?

2. What does the narrator suggest to his wife he could do when the blind man comes to visit, causing her exasperation?

3. Where is Travis A.F.B. located?

4. From what narrative perspective is the story of “Cathedral” relayed?

5. What vegetable does the narrator’s wife throw when she has an argument with the narrator in the beginning of the story?

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