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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator’s final comment to the blind man in the story?
(a) It’s really something
(b) I would have never believed it
(c) I never could have imagined
(d) You are great

2. What central theme unites the main characters in “Cathedral”?
(a) Maternal love
(b) Alienation
(c) Lust
(d) Overreaching ambition

3. How does the narrator describe the blind man’s attire when he arrives?
(a) Spiffy
(b) Regal
(c) Shoddy
(d) Clownish

4. The narrator tells the blind man, “In those olden days, when they built cathedrals, men wanted to be” what?
(a) Shielded from the weather
(b) Different from each other
(c) Proud of something
(d) Close to God

5. Who is the protagonist of “Cathedral”?
(a) Barry Fitzgerald
(b) The narrator’s wife
(c) Robert
(d) The narrator

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator spread out the pen and paper when he returns with it in the story?

2. The narrator states after the blind man’s arrival that he’d always thought what “were a must for the blind”?

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

4. According to the narrator, the train ride from the blind man’s in-laws’ home to the narrator’s home takes how long?

5. How many joints does the narrator roll for him and the blind man while his wife is upstairs?

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