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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the protagonist of “Cathedral”?
(a) Barry Fitzgerald
(b) Robert
(c) The narrator’s wife
(d) The narrator

2. Of his knowledge of cathedrals, the blind man says that he knows from the television show that they took about how many years to build?
(a) 150-200
(b) 50-100
(c) 20-30
(d) 40-60

3. What does the narrator’s wife say when she awakens as the narrator is drawing a cathedral?
(a) What time is it? Why are you still awake?
(b) Where are the children?
(c) I’ve got to call my mother
(d) What are you doing? Tell me, I want to know

4. How does the narrator’s wife look at him when he turns on the television during the talk with the blind man after dinner?
(a) With irritation
(b) With admiration
(c) Thankfully
(d) Enviously

5. How long does the narrator say he’s been in his current position (of employment) when asked by the blind man?
(a) 1 year
(b) 3 years
(c) 8 months
(d) 2 years

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the narrator and his wife offer the blind man as they smoke marijuana in the story?

2. What did the narrator’s wife’s first husband do when he found her after her overdose?

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. When the blind man appears to snooze during his conversation with the narrator, the narrator assumes that perhaps he’s imagining himself where?

5. What vegetable does the narrator’s wife throw when she has an argument with the narrator in the beginning of the story?

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