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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Commentary, Line 287: humming as you pack through Line 347, old barn.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is King Charles' grandfather?
(a) Charles Kinbote.
(b) Thurgus the Third.
(c) King Alfin the Vague.
(d) Odon.

2. Who tells Kinbote the Shades' vacation destination?
(a) John Shade.
(b) Kinbote's doctor.
(c) The gardener.
(d) John Shade's secretary.

3. Whose spirit supposedly haunts the barn?
(a) King Charles.
(b) The farmer who used to sleep there.
(c) Hazel Shade.
(d) King Alfin the Vague.

4. How does John Shade's daughter die?
(a) She poisons herself.
(b) She freezes to death in a field.
(c) She drowns.
(d) She steps in front of a train.

5. John Shade's aunt is best described as what?
(a) Eccentric.
(b) Religious.
(c) Agnostic.
(d) Wicked.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the Shades' planning to go on vacation?

2. What does Charles Kinbote do when he finds out where the Shades' are planning to go on vacation?

3. According to Kinbote, who was Thurgus the Third's lover?

4. Kinbote notes that the poem alludes to what fictional character?

5. Of the following, what do John Shade and the assassin have in common?

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