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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was “Cathedral” chosen to appear in The Best American Short Stories?
(a) 1991
(b) 1982
(c) 1975
(d) 1987

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

3. Where is the blind man going to visit his dead wife’s relatives in the beginning of the story?
(a) Connecticut
(b) Alaska
(c) Oregon
(d) Alabama

4. What does the narrator say his wife writes one or two of every year?
(a) Essays
(b) Short stories
(c) Novels
(d) Poems

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Raymond Carver born?

2. The narrator tells the blind man, “In those olden days, when they built cathedrals, men wanted to be” what?

3. The blind man tells the narrator when he arrives that he hadn’t been on a train in almost how long?

4. What question does the blind man ask the narrator as the narrator begins drawing the cathedral in the story?

5. What word from the story refers to a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or roof-like construction upon a tower?

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