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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the blind man’s facial hair?
(a) He has a handlebar mustache
(b) He has a full beard
(c) He has a goatee
(d) He has muttonchops

2. Where is McGuire A.F.B. located?
(a) Georgia
(b) California
(c) New Jersey
(d) Kansas

3. Of the blind man’s eyes, the narrator says there’s too much white where?
(a) In the pupil
(b) In the iris
(c) In the retina
(d) In the cornea

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

5. After hearing her name, the narrator asks his wife what question?
(a) Was his wife southern?
(b) Was his wife a Yankee?
(c) Was his wife Canadian?
(d) Was his wife a Negro?

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

7. What was the narrator’s wife’s position when she worked for the blind man?
(a) She was a reader
(b) She was an editor
(c) She was a secretary
(d) She was a pianist

8. The narrator says, “I remembered having read somewhere that the blind didn’t smoke because, as speculation had it, they couldn’t” what?
(a) Tell how other people did it
(b) Avoid burning their faces
(c) Fully share the pleasure of it
(d) See the smoke they exhaled

9. What does the narrator describe as “little statues carved to look like monsters”?
(a) Gargoyles
(b) Trolls
(c) Vampires
(d) Phantoms

10. What novelist was Raymond Carver’s mentor and teacher?
(a) Henry David Thoreau
(b) Margaret Fuller
(c) Horace Greeley
(d) John Gardner

11. How does the narrator describe the windows he draws on the cathedral in the story?
(a) Arched
(b) Wide
(c) Squared
(d) Triangular

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

13. The blind man tells the narrator as he continues his drawing of the cathedral, “You got it, bub. I can tell. You didn’t think you could. But you can, can’t you? You’re cooking with” what?
(a) Dry tinder
(b) Charcoal
(c) Grease
(d) Gas now

14. Where does the blind man put his hand as the narrator begins to draw in the story?
(a) Over the narrator’s hand
(b) On the narrator’s face
(c) On the paper
(d) At the edge of the table

15. After showing a cathedral in Portugal, the television show next travels to show a cathedral where?
(a) Poland
(b) Germany
(c) France
(d) Romania

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say about his and his wife’s sleeping patterns in the story?

3. Where was Raymond Carver born?

4. What does the narrator tell the blind man regarding the strength of the marijuana they are smoking?

5. What tool does the narrator note the blind man does not use after his arrival?

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