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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Cathedral.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. After showing a cathedral in Portugal, the television show next travels to show a cathedral where?
(a) Romania
(b) France
(c) Germany
(d) Poland
2. The narrator says, “I remembered having read somewhere that the blind didn’t smoke because, as speculation had it, they couldn’t” what?
(a) See the smoke they exhaled
(b) Tell how other people did it
(c) Fully share the pleasure of it
(d) Avoid burning their faces
3. When was Raymond Carver’s short story collection Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Published?
(a) 1985
(b) 1969
(c) 1980
(d) 1976
4. Where does the narrator sit when he returns to the living room with a pen and paper?
(a) On the table
(b) In a chair
(c) On the floor
(d) On the sofa
5. What does the blind man do as the narrator attempts to explain cathedrals to him?
(a) He taps on the table repeatedly
(b) He runs his fingers through his beard
(c) He snaps his fingers rhythmically
(d) He hums a tune softly
Short Answer Questions
1. What tool does the narrator note the blind man does not use after his arrival?
2. 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”?
3. The blind man comments to the narrator as he draw the cathedral, “What’s a cathedral without” what?
4. Exasperated by his inability to explain a cathedral to the blind man, the narrator apologizes and says, “The truth is, cathedrals don’t mean” what to him?
5. The narrator says in the beginning of the story that the last time his wife saw the blind man was how many years ago?
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