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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from the story refers to a hooded garment worn by monks?
(a) Mukluk
(b) Kimono
(c) Anorak
(d) Cowl

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

3. What happens to the television show as the narrator works on his drawing of a cathedral in the story?
(a) It gets louder
(b) It goes off the air
(c) It plays on mute
(d) It transitions to the desert

4. When the blind man appears to snooze during his conversation with the narrator, the narrator assumes that perhaps he’s imagining himself where?
(a) Spain
(b) Portugal
(c) Italy
(d) Greece

5. Of his knowledge of cathedrals, the blind man says that he knows from the television show that they took how many workers to build?
(a) Ten to twenty
(b) Thirty to forty
(c) Hundreds
(d) Thousands

6. The narrator says that after the death of the blind man’s wife, he was left with half of what kind of coin?
(a) A fifty-dinar Algerian coin
(b) A fifty-rupee Indian coin
(c) A twenty-peso Mexican coin
(d) A ten-dollar New Zealand coin

7. What does the blind man take from the backseat of the car when he and the narrator’s wife arrive at the narrator’s home?
(a) A suitcase
(b) A book
(c) A jacket
(d) A hat

8. How long is the blind man staying with the narrator and his wife in the story?
(a) 1 night
(b) 6 nights
(c) 3 nights
(d) 10 nights

9. The narrator says that his wife first contacted the blind man after how much time had passed since she’d worked for him?
(a) 1 year
(b) 8 months
(c) 3 years
(d) 5 years

10. 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”?
(a) He asks if the narrator is true to his wife
(b) He asks if the narrator is a dog lover
(c) He asks if the narrator is a sports fan
(d) He asks if the narrator is religious

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

12. 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 Middle Ages
(c) The Stone Age
(d) The Computer Age

13. As the narrator continues his drawing of the cathedral, he comments near the end of the story, “His fingers rode my fingers as my hand went over the paper. It was like” what?
(a) Looking through the rainbow
(b) Crossing into another world
(c) Nothing else in my life up to now
(d) Surfing on the waves of blindness

14. What tool does the narrator note the blind man does not use after his arrival?
(a) A cane
(b) A wheelchair
(c) A backhoe
(d) Braille

15. On the television show about the Church, the narrator describes a famous cathedral shown in what city?
(a) Zurich
(b) Warsaw
(c) Paris
(d) Berlin

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the narrator’s wife say she is going to do upstairs as she exits, leaving the narrator and the blind man alone after dinner?

3. What kind of meat does the narrator’s wife serve for dinner in the story?

4. What Irish actor does the blind man quote in saying “When I drink water, I drink water. When I drink whiskey, I drink whiskey”?

5. What kind of paper does the blind man ask the narrator to go get when they are talking late at night?

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