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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. As the narrator continues his drawing of the cathedral, he comments near the end of the story, “His fingers rode my fingers as my hand went over the paper. It was like” what?
(a) Nothing else in my life up to now
(b) Looking through the rainbow
(c) Crossing into another world
(d) Surfing on the waves of blindness

3. Where does the blind man put his hand as the narrator begins to draw in the story?
(a) At the edge of the table
(b) On the paper
(c) On the narrator’s face
(d) Over the narrator’s hand

4. What is the narrator’s prayer before dinner in the story?
(a) Pray for Robert’s wife
(b) Pray the bills are paid and we wake up tomorrow
(c) Pray for good weather and sound sleep
(d) Pray the phone won’t ring and the food doesn’t get cold

5. Where did the other half of the coin go that the blind man was left with, according to the narrator?
(a) In a safe deposit box
(b) In his wallet
(c) In his wife’s coffin
(d) In a frame on the wall

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator tell the blind man the show about cathedrals has traveled to, where there are “paintings on the walls of this one church”?

2. What did the blind man ask the narrator’s wife if he could do on her last day working for him?

3. What did the narrator’s wife wash down all the pills from the medicine cabinet with while she was at Travis A.F.B.?

4. The blind man discusses his ham radio operator friends in “Guam, in the Philippines, in Alaska, and even” where?

5. When was Raymond Carver’s short story collection Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Published?

(see the answer key)

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