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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How did the blind man’s wife die?
(a) She died of cancer
(b) She was in a car accident
(c) She committed suicide
(d) She died in childbirth

4. When the television show about the Church pans across the countryside, the narrator describes men walking behind what?
(a) Pigs
(b) Chickens
(c) Oxen
(d) Sheep

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Raymond Carver born?

2. In what periodical did “Cathedral” first appear?

3. What does the blind man ask the narrator about the paintings on the walls of the church in the television show?

4. How did the narrator’s wife maintain contact with the blind man since they last saw one another in person?

5. Where does the blind man live?

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