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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Of the religious pageant on the television show, the narrator says it takes place yearly where?
(a) Spain
(b) Ireland
(c) Norway
(d) Sweden
2. 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
3. How does the narrator describe the windows he draws on the cathedral in the story?
(a) Squared
(b) Wide
(c) Arched
(d) Triangular
4. Where does the narrator go to find a pen and paper when the blind man suggests it at night?
(a) To the basement
(b) To the nursery
(c) To the bathroom
(d) Upstairs
5. Where does the narrator’s wife go to pick up her blind friend who comes to visit?
(a) The bus station
(b) A museum
(c) The train station
(d) The airport
6. What does the protagonist in “Cathedral” gain by the end of the story?
(a) Anger and resentment
(b) Political favor
(c) Empathy and understanding
(d) Money and security
7. What color is all of the blind man’s attire when he arrives?
(a) White
(b) Brown
(c) Black
(d) Blue
8. When was Raymond Carver’s short story collection Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Published?
(a) 1969
(b) 1985
(c) 1980
(d) 1976
9. How does the narrator describe the blind man’s attire when he arrives?
(a) Clownish
(b) Regal
(c) Spiffy
(d) Shoddy
10. The narrator says, “I remembered having read somewhere that the blind didn’t smoke because, as speculation had it, they couldn’t” what?
(a) Avoid burning their faces
(b) Tell how other people did it
(c) Fully share the pleasure of it
(d) See the smoke they exhaled
11. According to the narrator, the train ride from the blind man’s in-laws’ home to the narrator’s home takes how long?
(a) 9 hours
(b) 2 hours
(c) 12 hours
(d) 5 hours
12. What is playing on the television as the narrator’s wife exits upstairs in the story?
(a) A late-night comedy show
(b) The weather report
(c) A game show
(d) Entertainment news
13. 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) Reading the paper
(b) Listening to the radio
(c) Watching TV
(d) Doing a crossword puzzle
14. The narrator describes the man narrating the television show about the Church as being from where?
(a) England
(b) Portugal
(c) Guam
(d) Canada
15. The narrator tells the blind man, “In those olden days, when they built cathedrals, men wanted to be” what?
(a) Shielded from the weather
(b) Close to God
(c) Proud of something
(d) Different from each other
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. What does the blind man ask the narrator about the paintings on the walls of the church in the television show?
3. How many joints does the narrator roll for him and the blind man while his wife is upstairs?
4. The narrator says that his wife first contacted the blind man after how much time had passed since she’d worked for him?
5. What is the narrator’s final comment to the blind man in the story?
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