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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 is the narrator’s final comment to the blind man in the story?
(a) I would have never believed it
(b) It’s really something
(c) I never could have imagined
(d) You are great

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

3. What does the narrator suggest to his wife he could do when the blind man comes to visit, causing her exasperation?
(a) He could take him to church
(b) He could invite him to the opera
(c) He could take him bowling
(d) He could take him to a ballgame

4. What word from the story means large and heavy-looking?
(a) Diminutive
(b) Massive
(c) Derivative
(d) Incremental

5. The narrator describes the man narrating the television show about the Church as being from where?
(a) Canada
(b) Guam
(c) England
(d) Portugal

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Moody A.F.B. located?

2. What does the narrator see his wife doing as she parks the car when she returns with the blind man?

3. How is the narrator’s viewpoint of blind people characterized in the beginning of the story?

4. How many joints does the narrator roll for him and the blind man while his wife is upstairs?

5. How long ago does the narrator say his wife offered to let him listen to a tape from the blind man in the beginning of the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the beginning of the television show about the church described?

2. What can the reader discern of the narrator’s jealousy through the exposition in the beginning of the story?

3. What does the narrator ask Robert regarding cathedrals in the story? Why? How does Robert respond?

4. What happened to the narrator’s wife during the years that she did not see the blind man? How did she maintain contact with Robert?

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

6. How does the narrator’s wife respond to the marijuana downstairs when she returns?

7. Why does the narrator apologize to Robert during their discussion after his wife’s fallen asleep?

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

9. Which of the characters in the story stands out from the theme of alienation? Why?

10. What does the blind man suggest when he feels the drawing is complete? How does the narrator respond?

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