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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator finds a pen for the blind man where in his house?
(a) On the kitchen counter
(b) In his desk drawer
(c) In the garage
(d) In a basket on his wife’s table

2. According to the narrator’s wife, how many people were in attendance at the blind man’s wedding?
(a) 2
(b) 25
(c) 17
(d) 4

3. 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) It makes me too talkative
(c) I can barely keep my eyes open as it is
(d) It is the devil’s weed

4. What vegetable does the narrator’s wife throw when she has an argument with the narrator in the beginning of the story?
(a) A potato
(b) A carrot
(c) A cucumber
(d) A pepper

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the blind man instruct the narrator to do after he’s almost completed the drawing of the cathedral?

2. When the blind man smokes his second hit of marijuana, the narrator says, “It was like he’d been doing this since he was” how old?

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

4. The narrator says that his wife first contacted the blind man after how much time had passed since she’d worked for him?

5. The narrator says, “I remembered having read somewhere that the blind didn’t smoke because, as speculation had it, they couldn’t” what?

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