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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) With admiration
(b) Thankfully
(c) Enviously
(d) With irritation

4. What question does the blind man ask the narrator as the narrator begins drawing the cathedral in the story?
(a) Where are you going to put the steeple and the people, bub?
(b) Never thought anything like this could happen in your lifetime, did you, bub?
(c) What kind of building are you drawing here, bub?
(d) Where’s your wife when you need her, huh, bub?

5. What is the name of Raymond Carver’s first published book of poems?
(a) Along the beach
(b) Surrounding Mountains
(c) Near Klamath
(d) Among the Redwoods

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the blind man instruct the narrator to do after he’s almost completed the drawing of the cathedral?

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

3. The narrator says in the beginning of the story, “My idea of blindness came from” what?

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

5. Where is Moody A.F.B. located?

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