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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is another word for “arc-boutant” used in the story?
(a) Viaduct
(b) Crown
(c) Spire
(d) Flying buttress

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

3. What word from the story refers to a hooded garment worn by monks?
(a) Kimono
(b) Anorak
(c) Mukluk
(d) Cowl

4. What kind of meat does the narrator’s wife serve for dinner in the story?
(a) Pork roast
(b) Baked salmon
(c) Lamb chops
(d) Cube steak

5. The narrator says in the beginning of the story, “My idea of blindness came from” what?
(a) The movies
(b) Magazines
(c) Word of mouth
(d) Church sermons

6. What are the first words that the blind man says to the narrator when he arrives?
(a) So you’re the husband
(b) I feel like we’ve already met
(c) I believe we have a lot in common
(d) I can’t wait to get to know you

7. In his attempt to describe cathedrals, the narrator tells the blind man that they are built out of stone and sometimes out of what?
(a) Marble
(b) Slate
(c) Granite
(d) Sandstone

8. What happens to the television show as the narrator works on his drawing of a cathedral in the story?
(a) It transitions to the desert
(b) It gets louder
(c) It plays on mute
(d) It goes off the air

9. What question does the blind man ask the narrator as the narrator begins drawing the cathedral in the story?
(a) Where’s your wife when you need her, huh, bub?
(b) Where are you going to put the steeple and the people, bub?
(c) What kind of building are you drawing here, bub?
(d) Never thought anything like this could happen in your lifetime, did you, bub?

10. Where was Raymond Carver born?
(a) Clatskanie, Oregon
(b) Mountain Home, Idaho
(c) Yakima, Washington
(d) Jackson, Wyoming

11. The blind man discusses his ham radio operator friends in “Guam, in the Philippines, in Alaska, and even” where?
(a) Australia
(b) Tahiti
(c) Poland
(d) Bolivia

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

13. 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) 20-30
(b) 50-100
(c) 40-60
(d) 150-200

14. Of his knowledge of cathedrals, the blind man says that he knows from the television show that they took how many workers to build?
(a) Hundreds
(b) Thirty to forty
(c) Thousands
(d) Ten to twenty

15. How old does the narrator describe the blind man as being?
(a) In his late thirties
(b) In his early twenties
(c) In his early fifties
(d) In his late forties

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator describe as “little statues carved to look like monsters”?

2. What does the narrator say causes him problems sleeping?

3. What is the narrator’s prayer before dinner in the story?

4. What is the blind man’s name in the story?

5. Where in the narrative does the rising action begin?

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