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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 of the blind man that he’d done “a little bit of everything, it seemed, a regular” what?
(a) Blind jack-of-all-trades
(b) Disabled explorer
(c) John Muir
(d) Barry Fitzgerald

2. What is the blind man’s answer when the narrator’s wife asks if he has a TV?
(a) My dear, I have two TVs
(b) They annoy me
(c) I prefer the radio
(d) I have never seen a TV in my life

3. The narrator says of the blind man’s employment that most recently he and his wife had had what kind of distributorship?
(a) Electronics
(b) Automobile
(c) Safeway
(d) Amway

4. What does the blind man say “never ends” in the story?
(a) Learning
(b) Pride
(c) Fantasy
(d) Sorrow

5. Where does the blind man live?
(a) San Diego
(b) Minneapolis
(c) Billings
(d) Seattle

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator go to find a pen and paper when the blind man suggests it at night?

2. Where does the narrator’s wife go to pick up her blind friend who comes to visit?

3. On the television show about the Church, the narrator describes a famous cathedral shown in what city?

4. What happens to the television show as the narrator works on his drawing of a cathedral in the story?

5. What is the narrator’s response when his wife asks as she comes downstairs, “What do I smell?”

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