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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says that after the death of the blind man’s wife, he was left with half of what kind of coin?
(a) A twenty-peso Mexican coin
(b) A ten-dollar New Zealand coin
(c) A fifty-dinar Algerian coin
(d) A fifty-rupee Indian coin

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?
(a) Where they lived
(b) His sister
(c) Their children
(d) His mother

3. What are the supports called on a cathedral that are built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts?
(a) Crossbeams
(b) Trusses
(c) Pillars
(d) Buttresses

4. What was the narrator’s wife’s position when she worked for the blind man?
(a) She was an editor
(b) She was a secretary
(c) She was a pianist
(d) She was a reader

5. When the narrator’s wife first contacted the blind man after working for him, she called him from what facility?
(a) A train station
(b) A hospital
(c) A Navy Base
(d) An Air Force Base

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is McGuire A.F.B. located?

2. When the blind man asks the narrator to describe a cathedral to him, what is the first thing the narrator says?

3. What is the narrator’s final comment to the blind man in the story?

4. What does the narrator describe to the blind man as the things that are tormenting the monks on the television show?

5. What does the narrator describe as “little statues carved to look like monsters”?

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