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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. How did the narrator’s wife maintain contact with the blind man since they last saw one another in person?
(a) They mailed tapes to each other
(b) They wrote letters to each other
(c) They communicated by fax machine
(d) They wrote emails to each other

2. According to the narrator’s wife’s story, how did the blind man meet his wife?
(a) She volunteered at her church
(b) She sat next to him on a bus
(c) She would see him at the library
(d) She worked for him

3. What beverage does the blind man drink with his dinner in the story?
(a) Coffee
(b) Milk
(c) Water
(d) Tea

4. What is the blind man’s response when the narrator asks “if he wanted to smoke some dope with me”?
(a) You can roll some of mine
(b) I’ll try some with you
(c) I respectfully decline
(d) I thought you’d never ask

5. Of the blind man’s eyes, the narrator says there’s too much white where?
(a) In the cornea
(b) In the iris
(c) In the pupil
(d) In the retina

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the blind man say “never ends” in the story?

2. What is the blind man’s answer when the narrator’s wife asks if he has a TV?

3. What color is all of the blind man’s attire when he arrives?

4. Where is the blind man going to visit his dead wife’s relatives in the beginning of the story?

5. Where does the narrator go to find a pen and paper when the blind man suggests it at night?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator offer to Robert after his wife passes out? How does Robert respond?

3. How does the narrator feel about the blind man’s visit in the beginning of the story? What are his impressions of “the blind”?

4. How does the narrator describe his wife’s last in-person meeting with the blind man?

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

6. How does the narrator’s wife describe Robert’s marriage prior to his arrival in the story?

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

8. How are the narrator’s perceptions of race illustrated in “Cathedral”?

9. What prompts the narrator to begin speaking during the television show?

10. Why does the narrator pity Beulah in the beginning of the story?

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