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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What drink does the blind man ask for when the narrator offers him one after his arrival?
(a) Scotch
(b) Tequila
(c) Vodka
(d) Rum

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

3. What does the narrator say his wife writes one or two of every year?
(a) Short stories
(b) Poems
(c) Novels
(d) Essays

4. What novelist was Raymond Carver’s mentor and teacher?
(a) Henry David Thoreau
(b) John Gardner
(c) Margaret Fuller
(d) Horace Greeley

5. Where did the narrator’s wife fall asleep after overdosing on pills while at Travis A.F.B.?
(a) On the patio
(b) In the bathtub
(c) In the garage
(d) In the basement

Short Answer Questions

1. How long ago does the narrator’s wife say she and her husband bought their sofa?

2. Where does the blind man live?

3. Of his knowledge of cathedrals, the blind man says that he knows from the television show that they took about how many years to build?

4. At what point in the story does the protagonist reach his major epiphany?

5. The narrator says that the “was having a drink and” doing what when he “heard the car pull into the drive” with his wife and the blind man?

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