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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how many years were the blind man and his wife married before her health went rapidly in decline?
(a) 8
(b) 3
(c) 5
(d) 13

2. What does the narrator describe to the blind man as the things that are tormenting the monks on the television show?
(a) Skeletons
(b) Bears
(c) Ghosts
(d) Tigers

3. The narrator feels pity for the blind man when he considers that he lived with and loved his wife without ever having what?
(a) Touched her
(b) Understood her
(c) Seen her
(d) Listened to her

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

5. What did the blind man ask the narrator’s wife if he could do on her last day working for him?
(a) Hear her sing
(b) Read a book to him
(c) Kiss her on the cheek
(d) Touch her face

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

7. The narrator tells the blind man that sometimes cathedrals have “devils and such carved into the front. Sometimes” what?
(a) Kings and bishops
(b) Plants and animals
(c) Peasants and thieves
(d) Lords and ladies

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

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

10. What beverage does the blind man drink with his dinner in the story?
(a) Coffee
(b) Tea
(c) Milk
(d) Water

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

12. What is the narrator’s prayer before dinner in the story?
(a) Pray the bills are paid and we wake up tomorrow
(b) Pray for good weather and sound sleep
(c) Pray for Robert’s wife
(d) Pray the phone won’t ring and the food doesn’t get cold

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

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

15. What is the blind man’s answer when the narrator’s wife asks if he has a TV?
(a) I have never seen a TV in my life
(b) My dear, I have two TVs
(c) I prefer the radio
(d) They annoy me

Short Answer Questions

1. When the blind man appears to snooze during his conversation with the narrator, the narrator assumes that perhaps he’s imagining himself where?

2. At what point in the story does the protagonist reach his major epiphany?

3. The narrator describes the man narrating the television show about the Church as being from where?

4. What does the narrator say that he, his wife, and the blind man did after scarfing down their dinner in the story?

5. Of the blind man’s eyes, the narrator says there’s too much white where?

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