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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was “Cathedral” chosen to appear in The Best American Short Stories?
(a) 1982
(b) 1991
(c) 1975
(d) 1987

2. 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?
(a) Black
(b) Green
(c) Silver
(d) White

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

4. What does the narrator give as a response to the narrator’s question of whether he was going to stay with his work?
(a) It pays the bills
(b) I haven’t had any other offers
(c) What were the options?
(d) It would be hard to take a pay cut

5. What does the narrator’s wife say she is going to do upstairs as she exits, leaving the narrator and the blind man alone after dinner?
(a) Change into her robe
(b) Take a bath
(c) Call a friend on the telephone
(d) Read a book

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Raymond Carver born?

2. On the television show about the Church, the narrator describes a famous cathedral shown in what city?

3. From what narrative perspective is the story of “Cathedral” relayed?

4. What does the narrator say his wife writes one or two of every year?

5. When the blind man asks the narrator to describe a cathedral to him, what is the first thing the narrator says?

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