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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How is the narrator’s viewpoint of blind people characterized in the beginning of the story?
(a) He is an advocate for them
(b) He is assimilated with them
(c) He is empathetic with them
(d) He is prejudiced against them

4. Of the religious pageant on the television show, the narrator says it takes place yearly where?
(a) Ireland
(b) Spain
(c) Norway
(d) Sweden

5. The narrator surmises of the blind man’s wife that she could wear what in her nostril and it wouldn’t make a difference?
(a) A handkerchief
(b) A pencil
(c) A straight pin
(d) An earring

6. Where does the narrator’s wife fall asleep after they’ve smoked marijuana?
(a) In the bathtub
(b) In the chair
(c) On the couch
(d) On the floor

7. When the narrator’s wife first contacted the blind man after working for him, she called him from what state?
(a) Missouri
(b) Alabama
(c) Tennessee
(d) Indiana

8. 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) Tell him some stories
(d) Pretend to like him

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

10. The narrator tells the blind man, “In those olden days, when they built cathedrals, men wanted to be” what?
(a) Close to God
(b) Different from each other
(c) Shielded from the weather
(d) Proud of something

11. What term refers to the portion of a story that introduces the important background information, such as the narrator’s descriptions of his wife’s history with the blind man in “Cathedral”?
(a) Denouement
(b) Exposition
(c) Rising action
(d) Climax

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

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

14. What does the blind man say “never ends” in the story?
(a) Sorrow
(b) Pride
(c) Fantasy
(d) Learning

15. The blind man discusses his ham radio operator friends in “Guam, in the Philippines, in Alaska, and even” where?
(a) Tahiti
(b) Australia
(c) Bolivia
(d) Poland

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the story means large and heavy-looking?

2. 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?

3. How does the narrator describe the windows he draws on the cathedral in the story?

4. The narrator says in the beginning of the story, “My idea of blindness came from” what?

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

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