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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator surmises of the blind man’s wife that she could wear what color eye-shadow around one eye and it wouldn’t make a difference?
(a) Black
(b) Silver
(c) Green
(d) White

2. What term describes a movement where a literary or artistic work is set out to expose the essence or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts?
(a) Focused
(b) Minimalism
(c) Truism
(d) Critical

3. The narrator feels pity for the blind man when he considers that he lived with and loved his wife without ever having what?
(a) Understood her
(b) Touched her
(c) Listened to her
(d) Seen her

4. How did the narrator’s wife’s first marriage end?
(a) Her husband was murdered
(b) Her husband committed suicide
(c) She and her husband got divorced
(d) Her husband was incarcerated

5. Of the religious pageant on the television show, the narrator says it takes place yearly where?
(a) Spain
(b) Norway
(c) Sweden
(d) Ireland

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the literary formats that Raymond Carver’s career was dedicated to?

2. What did the blind man ask the narrator’s wife if he could do on her last day working for him?

3. When the narrator changes the television channel, he says there is something about the Church and what era on?

4. How does the narrator’s wife look at him when he turns on the television during the talk with the blind man after dinner?

5. What is the blind man’s response when the narrator asks “if he wanted to smoke some dope with me”?

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