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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 does the blind man ask the narrator about the paintings on the walls of the church in the television show?
(a) If they are modernist
(b) If they are fresco
(c) If they are oil paintings
(d) If they are cubist

2. When the narrator’s wife first contacted the blind man after working for him, she called him from what facility?
(a) A Navy Base
(b) A hospital
(c) An Air Force Base
(d) A train station

3. How does the narrator describe the physicality of the blind man after his arrival?
(a) Toned
(b) Heavy-set
(c) Frail
(d) Muscle-bound

4. When the television show about the Church pans across the countryside, the narrator describes men walking behind what?
(a) Sheep
(b) Pigs
(c) Chickens
(d) Oxen

5. 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) 150-200
(b) 40-60
(c) 50-100
(d) 20-30

Short Answer Questions

1. The blind man comments to the narrator as he draw the cathedral, “What’s a cathedral without” what?

2. What does the narrator tell the blind man regarding the strength of the marijuana they are smoking?

3. The narrator states after the blind man’s arrival that he’d always thought what “were a must for the blind”?

4. What does the blind man do as the narrator attempts to explain cathedrals to him?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize his usual evenings in the story? What does this indicate about his character?

2. What is symbolized through the television set in the story?

3. What is signified by the narrator’s final lines in the story?

4. How is the theme of alienation illustrated through the protagonist in the story?

5. How many drinks do the narrator, his wife, and Robert have before dinner? What do they discuss?

6. How is the post-dinner conversation described by the narrator? What prompts him to turn on the television?

7. How does the narrator’s wife respond when he turns on the television? What conversation ensues?

8. What is the central imagery employed in the story? How is it employed?

9. What does the reader learn about the narrator when he and his wife discuss their friends prior to the blind man’s arrival?

10. How does the reader gain insight into the narrator’s prejudices against blindness in the story?

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