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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The blind man asks the narrator’s wife if he looks what, when he meets her husband?
(a) Distinguished
(b) Displaced
(c) Disheveled
(d) Disinterested

2. The narrator finds a pen for the blind man where in his house?
(a) In the garage
(b) In his desk drawer
(c) On the kitchen counter
(d) In a basket on his wife’s table

3. Where did the narrator’s wife fall asleep after overdosing on pills while at Travis A.F.B.?
(a) In the basement
(b) In the garage
(c) In the bathtub
(d) On the patio

4. When the narrator changes the television channel, he says there is something about the Church and what era on?
(a) The Industrial Revolution
(b) The Stone Age
(c) The Computer Age
(d) The Middle Ages

5. The narrator surmises of the blind man’s wife that she could wear what color eye-shadow around one eye and it wouldn’t make a difference?
(a) Black
(b) White
(c) Green
(d) Silver

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

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

8. 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 wallet
(b) A handkerchief
(c) A book
(d) A bag

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

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

11. What does the narrator say causes him problems sleeping?
(a) Dreams
(b) A bad smell
(c) His wife’s snoring
(d) A sore throat

12. 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) 40-60
(b) 50-100
(c) 20-30
(d) 150-200

13. Regarding the view from the train, the narrator says, “going to New York, you should sit” where on the train?
(a) On the right side
(b) In the front
(c) In the back
(d) On the left side

14. The narrator’s wife tells him early in the story, “if you had a friend, any friend, and the friend came to visit, I’d” what?
(a) Get along with him
(b) Make him feel comfortable
(c) Pretend to like him
(d) Tell him some stories

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the narrator’s response when the blind man asks if he likes his work?

2. What does the blind man remark about the narrator’s television set, saying, “Don’t ask me how, but I can tell”?

3. What is the name of the blind man’s wife who recently passed away in the story?

4. At the end of the story, the narrator says, “I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn’t feel like I was” what?

5. What does the blind man say “never ends” in the story?

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