2. How does the narrator describe the physicality of the blind man after his arrival?
(a) Muscle-bound
(b) Frail
(c) Heavy-set
(d) Toned

3. What vegetable does the narrator’s wife throw when she has an argument with the narrator in the beginning of the story?
(a) A potato
(b) A cucumber
(c) A carrot
(d) A pepper

4. What does the narrator describe to the blind man as the things that are tormenting the monks on the television show?
(a) Ghosts
(b) Tigers
(c) Bears
(d) Skeletons

5. What did the blind man ask the narrator’s wife if he could do on her last day working for him?
(a) Touch her face
(b) Kiss her on the cheek
(c) Hear her sing
(d) Read a book to him

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. What does the blind man remark about the narrator’s television set, saying, “Don’t ask me how, but I can tell”?

3. What instruction does the blind man give to the narrator as he draws the cathedral in the story?

4. When the television show about the Church pans across the countryside, the narrator describes men walking behind what?

5. What color is all of the blind man’s attire when he arrives?

(see the answer key)

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