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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say causes him problems sleeping?
(a) A bad smell
(b) Dreams
(c) A sore throat
(d) His wife’s snoring

2. What tool does the narrator note the blind man does not use after his arrival?
(a) A cane
(b) A backhoe
(c) A wheelchair
(d) Braille

3. What does the blind man remark about the narrator’s television set, saying, “Don’t ask me how, but I can tell”?
(a) That it is a color television set
(b) That the sound seems rough
(c) That it is an old television set
(d) That it is a small television set

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) Fully share the pleasure of it
(b) Tell how other people did it
(c) See the smoke they exhaled
(d) Avoid burning their faces

5. Where is Travis A.F.B. located?
(a) Kansas
(b) California
(c) Georgia
(d) New Jersey

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator tell the blind man regarding the strength of the marijuana they are smoking?

3. How is the narrator’s viewpoint of blind people characterized in the beginning of the story?

4. 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?

5. In what year was “Cathedral” first published in a periodical?

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