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

2. Why does the narrator’s wife say she shouldn’t be smoking this when she is passed the joint in the story?
(a) I can barely keep my eyes open as it is
(b) It is the devil’s weed
(c) I could get drug tested
(d) It makes me too talkative

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

4. What does the narrator give as a response to the narrator’s question of whether he was going to stay with his work?
(a) What were the options?
(b) It pays the bills
(c) It would be hard to take a pay cut
(d) I haven’t had any other offers

5. What is another word for “arc-boutant” used in the story?
(a) Viaduct
(b) Flying buttress
(c) Spire
(d) Crown

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say about his and his wife’s sleeping patterns in the story?

2. What Irish actor does the blind man quote in saying “When I drink water, I drink water. When I drink whiskey, I drink whiskey”?

3. Where is McConnell A.F.B. located?

4. How does the narrator describe the blind man’s facial hair?

5. Of the blind man’s eyes, the narrator says there’s too much white where?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What are the narrator’s perceptions of Robert’s marriage as his wife describes it in the beginning of the story?

10. How is the theme of creativity illustrated through the protagonist in the beginning of “Cathedral”?

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