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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What word from the story means large and heavy-looking?
(a) Incremental
(b) Massive
(c) Diminutive
(d) Derivative
2. What central theme unites the main characters in “Cathedral”?
(a) Alienation
(b) Overreaching ambition
(c) Lust
(d) Maternal love
3. What slang term does the blind man use at the end of the story to mean “to lie”?
(a) Fib
(b) Evasion
(c) Fudge
(d) Slander
4. According to the narrator’s wife, how many people were in attendance at the blind man’s wedding?
(a) 17
(b) 25
(c) 2
(d) 4
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) White
(b) Green
(c) Silver
(d) Black
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of pie does the narrator’s wife serve at dinner?
2. What did the narrator’s wife’s first husband do when he found her after her overdose?
3. The man that the narrator’s wife was going to marry when she worked for the blind man was in what kind of school?
4. What was the narrator’s response when the blind man asks if he likes his work?
5. When the narrator changes the television channel, he says there is something about the Church and what era on?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the central imagery employed in the story? How is it employed?
2. What is symbolized through the television set in the story?
3. What drives the narrative plot of “Cathedral”? What effect does this have on the plot’s structure?
4. How is the theme of creativity manifested through the protagonist at the end of the story?
5. What role does alcoholism play in “Cathedral”?
6. Which of the characters in the story stands out from the theme of alienation? Why?
7. What does the narrator offer to Robert after his wife passes out? How does Robert respond?
8. What conversation does the narrator have with Robert regarding alcohol after Robert’s arrival?
9. How are the characters in “Cathedral” representative of Raymond Carver’s style?
10. What can the reader discern of the narrator’s jealousy through the exposition in the beginning of the story?
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