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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the blind man take from his back pocket as he and the narrator are talking and watching television late at night?
(a) A handkerchief
(b) A wallet
(c) A bag
(d) A book

2. Along what river does the narrator describe the train going on the route from his home to New York?
(a) The Snake River
(b) The Green River
(c) The Hudson River
(d) The Niagara River

3. What question does the blind man ask the narrator as the narrator begins drawing the cathedral in the story?
(a) Where’s your wife when you need her, huh, bub?
(b) Never thought anything like this could happen in your lifetime, did you, bub?
(c) What kind of building are you drawing here, bub?
(d) Where are you going to put the steeple and the people, bub?

4. What is another word for “arc-boutant” used in the story?
(a) Spire
(b) Flying buttress
(c) Viaduct
(d) Crown

5. What is the narrator’s response when his wife asks as she comes downstairs, “What do I smell?”
(a) I needed a cigarette
(b) We thought we’d have us some cannabis
(c) Just incense my dear
(d) I don’t smell anything

Short Answer Questions

1. What is playing on the television as the narrator’s wife exits upstairs in the story?

2. What drink does the blind man ask for when the narrator offers him one after his arrival?

3. The narrator notes in the story that “A wink is the same thing as” what “to a blind man”?

4. The narrator says of the blind man’s employment that most recently he and his wife had had what kind of distributorship?

5. What term describes a movement where a literary or artistic work is set out to expose the essence or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts?

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