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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 kind of paper does the blind man ask the narrator to go get when they are talking late at night?
(a) Wax paper
(b) Heavy paper
(c) Typewriter paper
(d) Tissue paper

2. The blind man asks the narrator’s wife if he looks what, when he meets her husband?
(a) Disinterested
(b) Displaced
(c) Disheveled
(d) Distinguished

3. What is the name of Raymond Carver’s first published book of poems?
(a) Among the Redwoods
(b) Along the beach
(c) Near Klamath
(d) Surrounding Mountains

4. The narrator tells the blind man that sometimes cathedrals have “devils and such carved into the front. Sometimes” what?
(a) Kings and bishops
(b) Plants and animals
(c) Peasants and thieves
(d) Lords and ladies

5. The narrator says of the blind man’s employment that most recently he and his wife had had what kind of distributorship?
(a) Amway
(b) Electronics
(c) Safeway
(d) Automobile

Short Answer Questions

1. Where in Portugal does the television show feature a cathedral?

2. In what year was the anthology entitled Cathedral published?

3. What does the protagonist in “Cathedral” gain by the end of the story?

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the narrator’s prayer before dinner? How is the dinner described by the narrator?

3. What conversation does the narrator have with Robert regarding alcohol after Robert’s arrival?

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

5. How does the narrator attempt to describe a cathedral to Robert?

6. What role does alcoholism play in “Cathedral”?

7. Where does the rising action take place in “Cathedral”?

8. Why does the narrator say the blind man is coming to visit in the beginning of the story?

9. What do the narrator and Robert say in their discussion of religion in the story?

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

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