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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the narrator say his wife was to marry her fiancé when she worked for the blind man?
(a) At the end of the summer
(b) On Easter Sunday
(c) On Christmas Eve
(d) At the beginning of summer

2. The narrator says in the beginning of the story, “My idea of blindness came from” what?
(a) Magazines
(b) The movies
(c) Word of mouth
(d) Church sermons

3. In what year was “Cathedral” first published in a periodical?
(a) 1992
(b) 1975
(c) 1981
(d) 1964

4. What do the narrator and his wife drink when they sit down to talk with the blind man after he’s arrived?
(a) Absinthe
(b) Tequila
(c) Scotch
(d) Brandy

5. In his attempt to describe cathedrals, the narrator tells the blind man that they are built out of stone and sometimes out of what?
(a) Granite
(b) Slate
(c) Marble
(d) Sandstone

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the first words that the blind man says to the narrator when he arrives?

2. Travis A.F.B. is described as being near what city in the short story?

3. In what year was “Cathedral” chosen to appear in The Best American Short Stories?

4. The narrator notes in the story that “A wink is the same thing as” what “to a blind man”?

5. How does the narrator describe the windows he draws on the cathedral in the story?

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