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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Cathedral.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When the blind man asks the narrator to describe a cathedral to him, what is the first thing the narrator says?
(a) They have a very broad foundation
(b) The first things you notice are the intricate details
(c) You can’t look at one without seeing the arches
(d) To begin with, they’re very tall
2. What novelist was Raymond Carver’s mentor and teacher?
(a) Horace Greeley
(b) Margaret Fuller
(c) Henry David Thoreau
(d) John Gardner
3. How long ago does the narrator say his wife offered to let him listen to a tape from the blind man in the beginning of the story?
(a) 2 months ago
(b) 1 year ago
(c) 3 years ago
(d) 6 months ago
4. 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) Inside anything
(b) Imagining anything
(c) In my right mind
(d) Physically there
5. What does the blind man ask the narrator after giving prefacing it with, “Hey, listen. I hope you don’t mind my asking you. Can I ask you something? Let me ask you a simple question, yes or no”?
(a) He asks if the narrator is a dog lover
(b) He asks if the narrator is true to his wife
(c) He asks if the narrator is a sports fan
(d) He asks if the narrator is religious
Short Answer Questions
1. When the television show about the Church pans across the countryside, the narrator describes men walking behind what?
2. What does the narrator suggest to his wife he could do when the blind man comes to visit, causing her exasperation?
3. The narrator says of the “officer-to-be” that he’d been his wife’s what?
4. The narrator says, “I remembered having read somewhere that the blind didn’t smoke because, as speculation had it, they couldn’t” what?
5. The narrator states after the blind man’s arrival that he’d always thought what “were a must for the blind”?
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