Cathedral Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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Cathedral Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about the blind man’s visit in the beginning of the story?
(a) Excited
(b) Unenthusiastic
(c) Apprehensive
(d) Angry

2. What was the narrator’s wife’s position when she worked for the blind man?
(a) She was an editor
(b) She was a pianist
(c) She was a reader
(d) She was a secretary

3. How long ago does the narrator say his wife offered to let him listen to a tape from the blind man in the beginning of the story?
(a) 6 months ago
(b) 2 months ago
(c) 3 years ago
(d) 1 year ago

4. The narrator says, “I remembered having read somewhere that the blind didn’t smoke because, as speculation had it, they couldn’t” what?
(a) Tell how other people did it
(b) See the smoke they exhaled
(c) Avoid burning their faces
(d) Fully share the pleasure of it

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the story refers to a hooded garment worn by monks?

2. What does the narrator say that he, his wife, and the blind man did after scarfing down their dinner in the story?

3. What term refers to the portion of a story that introduces the important background information, such as the narrator’s descriptions of his wife’s history with the blind man in “Cathedral”?

4. What kind of paper does the blind man ask the narrator to go get when they are talking late at night?

5. How long is the blind man staying with the narrator and his wife in the story?

(see the answer key)

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