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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At what point in the story does the protagonist reach his major epiphany?
(a) When he closes his eyes
(b) After dinner
(c) When he turns on the TV
(d) When his wife arrives home

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 carrot
(b) A cucumber
(c) A potato
(d) A pepper

4. The narrator says of the blind man that he’d done “a little bit of everything, it seemed, a regular” what?
(a) John Muir
(b) Barry Fitzgerald
(c) Disabled explorer
(d) Blind jack-of-all-trades

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the last part of the blind man’s tape that the narrator heard when his wife played it for him?

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

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

4. What term, often used to characterize Raymond Carver’s writing, refers to a style in which the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life are presented in unadorned language?

5. What color is all of the blind man’s attire when he arrives?

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