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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator sit when he returns to the living room with a pen and paper?
(a) In a chair
(b) On the floor
(c) On the sofa
(d) On the table

2. How does the narrator instruct the blind man to smoke the marijuana in the story?
(a) Hold it as long as you can
(b) Don’t take too much
(c) Inhale slowly
(d) Don’t punish yourself

3. What do the narrator and his wife offer the blind man as they smoke marijuana in the story?
(a) A blanket
(b) A cup of coffee
(c) More pie
(d) A pillow

4. What color is all of the blind man’s attire when he arrives?
(a) White
(b) Black
(c) Blue
(d) Brown

5. What are in the bottom of the shopping bag that the narrator gathers for the blind man at night?
(a) Coffee beans
(b) Coupons
(c) Marshmallows
(d) Onion skins

6. What do the narrator and his wife drink when they sit down to talk with the blind man after he’s arrived?
(a) Tequila
(b) Absinthe
(c) Brandy
(d) Scotch

7. Where does the narrator go to find a pen and paper when the blind man suggests it at night?
(a) To the nursery
(b) Upstairs
(c) To the basement
(d) To the bathroom

8. Where in Portugal does the television show feature a cathedral?
(a) Pombal
(b) Lisbon
(c) Mira
(d) Coimbra

9. What does the blind man take from his back pocket as he and the narrator are talking and watching television late at night?
(a) A bag
(b) A book
(c) A handkerchief
(d) A wallet

10. 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) What kind of building are you drawing here, bub?
(c) Where are you going to put the steeple and the people, bub?
(d) Never thought anything like this could happen in your lifetime, did you, bub?

11. When was Raymond Carver’s short story collection Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Published?
(a) 1969
(b) 1985
(c) 1976
(d) 1980

12. What color are the narrator’s wife’s robe and slippers?
(a) Yellow
(b) Blue
(c) Pink
(d) Green

13. How does the narrator feel about the blind man’s visit in the beginning of the story?
(a) Apprehensive
(b) Angry
(c) Unenthusiastic
(d) Excited

14. 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?
(a) The world
(b) Godliness
(c) Success
(d) Anything special

15. 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) Sandstone
(c) Granite
(d) Slate

Short Answer Questions

1. What drink does the blind man ask for when the narrator offers him one after his arrival?

2. For how many years were the blind man and his wife married before her health went rapidly in decline?

3. Where is McConnell A.F.B. located?

4. On the television show about the Church, the narrator describes a famous cathedral shown in what city?

5. Travis A.F.B. is described as being near what city in the short story?

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