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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the narrator’s wife first contacted the blind man after working for him, she called him from what facility?
(a) A hospital
(b) A Navy Base
(c) A train station
(d) An Air Force Base

2. What does the protagonist in “Cathedral” gain by the end of the story?
(a) Empathy and understanding
(b) Money and security
(c) Political favor
(d) Anger and resentment

3. How does the narrator describe the blind man’s attire when he arrives?
(a) Regal
(b) Shoddy
(c) Spiffy
(d) Clownish

4. What is the blind man’s response when the narrator asks “if he wanted to smoke some dope with me”?
(a) I respectfully decline
(b) I thought you’d never ask
(c) You can roll some of mine
(d) I’ll try some with you

5. What is the name of Raymond Carver’s first published book of poems?
(a) Along the beach
(b) Among the Redwoods
(c) Near Klamath
(d) Surrounding Mountains

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator say he felt about their old sofa (that they replaced) when the blind man arrives?

2. The narrator says of the blind man that he’d done “a little bit of everything, it seemed, a regular” what?

3. Exasperated by his inability to explain a cathedral to the blind man, the narrator apologizes and says, “The truth is, cathedrals don’t mean” what to him?

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

5. What does the blind man instruct the narrator to do after he’s almost completed the drawing of the cathedral?

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