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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Cathedral.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the blind man take from the backseat of the car when he and the narrator’s wife arrive at the narrator’s home?
(a) A suitcase
(b) A book
(c) A hat
(d) A jacket

2. What does the narrator describe as “little statues carved to look like monsters”?
(a) Phantoms
(b) Vampires
(c) Gargoyles
(d) Trolls

3. At the end of the story, the narrator says, “I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn’t feel like I was” what?
(a) Imagining anything
(b) In my right mind
(c) Physically there
(d) Inside anything

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

5. What were the literary formats that Raymond Carver’s career was dedicated to?
(a) Novels and biographies
(b) Short stories and poetry
(c) Essays and memoirs
(d) Nonfiction histories and short stories

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator’s wife commented to the blind man through their first correspondence that she loved her husband but she didn’t love what?

2. What does the narrator’s wife say she is going to do upstairs as she exits, leaving the narrator and the blind man alone after dinner?

3. 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?

4. What is playing on the television as the narrator’s wife exits upstairs in the story?

5. What does the narrator do when the blind man says after the drawing is complete, “Take a look. What do you think?”

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