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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. John Shade vows to further explore what in Canto Two?
(a) The Zemblan Kings and their Gods.
(b) The depths of human consciousness.
(c) Reincarnation vs. heaven and hell.
(d) The possibility of an afterlife.

2. What happens to John Shade's aunt?
(a) She has a heart attack and dies.
(b) She drowns in a lake.
(c) She falls down the stairs and breaks her hip.
(d) She has a stroke and is moved to a sanitarium.

3. Who helps King Charles escape?
(a) John Shade.
(b) Charles Kinbote.
(c) Oleg.
(d) Odon.

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

5. What does Kinbote do during John Shade's birthday party?
(a) He writes and listens to music.
(b) He plays chess.
(c) He drinks alone.
(d) He spies on the party.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Kinbote want us to believe was the catalyst for John Shade's choice to set "Pale Fire" during the winter months?

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

4. Who gives Kinbote information about John Shade's daughter?

5. How old was Shade when he wrote Canto Two?

(see the answer key)

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