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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many joints does the narrator roll for him and the blind man while his wife is upstairs?
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 1
(d) 6

2. According to the narrator’s wife’s story, how did the blind man meet his wife?
(a) She volunteered at her church
(b) She worked for him
(c) She would see him at the library
(d) She sat next to him on a bus

3. What does the blind man do as the narrator attempts to explain cathedrals to him?
(a) He snaps his fingers rhythmically
(b) He hums a tune softly
(c) He taps on the table repeatedly
(d) He runs his fingers through his beard

4. The man that the narrator’s wife was going to marry when she worked for the blind man was in what kind of school?
(a) Construction school
(b) Officers’ training school
(c) Truck driving school
(d) Electrician school

5. For what literary genre is author Raymond Carver most well known?
(a) Epic literature
(b) Absurdist drama
(c) Minimalist fiction
(d) Science fiction

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator changes the television channel, he says there is something about the Church and what era on?

2. At what point in the story does the protagonist reach his major epiphany?

3. The blind man comments to the narrator as he draw the cathedral, “What’s a cathedral without” what?

4. Why does the narrator’s wife say she shouldn’t be smoking this when she is passed the joint in the story?

5. Where is Moody A.F.B. located?

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