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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the narrator’s viewpoint of blind people characterized in the beginning of the story?
(a) He is empathetic with them
(b) He is an advocate for them
(c) He is prejudiced against them
(d) He is assimilated with them

2. What is playing on the television as the narrator’s wife exits upstairs in the story?
(a) A game show
(b) Entertainment news
(c) The weather report
(d) A late-night comedy show

3. How does the narrator describe the blind man’s facial hair?
(a) He has muttonchops
(b) He has a full beard
(c) He has a goatee
(d) He has a handlebar mustache

4. What does the blind man instruct the narrator to do after he’s almost completed the drawing of the cathedral?
(a) To open his mind
(b) To close his mouth
(c) To close his eyes
(d) To say a prayer

5. The narrator says of the blind man’s employment that most recently he and his wife had had what kind of distributorship?
(a) Automobile
(b) Electronics
(c) Safeway
(d) Amway

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator’s wife commented to the blind man through their first correspondence that she loved her husband but she didn’t love what?

2. What do the narrator and his wife offer the blind man as they smoke marijuana in the story?

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

4. When the narrator’s wife first contacted the blind man after working for him, she called him from what state?

5. How long does the narrator say he’s been in his current position (of employment) when asked by the blind man?

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