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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The blind man asks the narrator’s wife if he looks what, when he meets her husband?
(a) Disinterested
(b) Displaced
(c) Disheveled
(d) Distinguished

2. What instruction does the blind man give to the narrator as he draws the cathedral in the story?
(a) Draw slowly
(b) Fill in all the details
(c) Press hard
(d) Lightly now

3. When the blind man appears to snooze during his conversation with the narrator, the narrator assumes that perhaps he’s imagining himself where?
(a) Italy
(b) Portugal
(c) Spain
(d) Greece

4. The narrator says that the “was having a drink and” doing what when he “heard the car pull into the drive” with his wife and the blind man?
(a) Listening to the radio
(b) Watching TV
(c) Reading the paper
(d) Doing a crossword puzzle

5. What Irish actor does the blind man quote in saying “When I drink water, I drink water. When I drink whiskey, I drink whiskey”?
(a) Stuart Townsend
(b) Barry Fitzgerald
(c) Peter O’Toole
(d) Brendan Gleeson

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. Where does the narrator spread out the pen and paper when he returns with it in the story?

3. When does the narrator say his wife was to marry her fiancé when she worked for the blind man?

4. Where does the blind man put his hand as the narrator begins to draw in the story?

5. 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?

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