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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of the story, the narrator says, “I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn’t feel like I was” what?
(a) In my right mind
(b) Imagining anything
(c) Physically there
(d) Inside anything

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

3. When the narrator’s wife first contacted the blind man after working for him, she called him from what state?
(a) Alabama
(b) Missouri
(c) Indiana
(d) Tennessee

4. On the television show about the Church, the narrator describes a famous cathedral shown in what city?
(a) Paris
(b) Warsaw
(c) Zurich
(d) Berlin

5. Where does the narrator go to find a pen and paper when the blind man suggests it at night?
(a) To the bathroom
(b) To the nursery
(c) To the basement
(d) Upstairs

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What vegetable does the narrator’s wife throw when she has an argument with the narrator in the beginning of the story?

3. What was the last part of the blind man’s tape that the narrator heard when his wife played it for him?

4. What beverage does the blind man drink with his dinner in the story?

5. How old does the narrator describe the blind man as being?

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