Name: _____________________________     English 2204 / Summer 2007 / Quiz 8

Mason, "Shiloh" --

1.) What did Leroy do for a living?

2.) Why is Leroy around the house so much now?

3.) Who is Randy?

4.) Who is Mabel Beasley?

5.) Name one thing that Norma Jean does in the story to keep busy.

6.) What does Norma Jean announce to Leroy when they go to visit Shiloh?

Carver, "Cathedral" --

7.) How did the narrator’s wife first meet the blind man, Robert?

8.) How have the narrator’s wife and Robert communicated over the years?

9.) Name one thing the narrator does or says which irritates his wife.

10.) Name one thing that Robert does that the narrator finds unusual for a blind man.

11.) What “nickname” does Robert use for the narrator?

12.) What do the narrator and Robert end up doing together while watching TV -- at the very end of the story?

Carver, "A Small, Good Thing" --

13.) What is the name of the “birthday boy”?

14.) Why is the birthday boy in the hospital?

15.) Who keeps making “prank” phone calls to the birthday boy’s father and mother?

16.) Why is the negro boy, Franklin, in the hospital for surgery?

17.) Does the birthday boy die in the story?

18.) The birthday boy’s father and mother go to visit whom at the end of the story?