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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Commentary, Line 697: Conclusive destination through Line 830: Sybil, it is.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Shade find out when he tracks down the woman who had the same vision of the after-life that he did?
(a) She is married to Charles Kinbote.
(b) She had a different vision.
(c) She is a Zemblan queen.
(d) She also had a daughter who passed away recently.

2. Charles Kinbote writes a brief play about what event?
(a) The Shades' vacation.
(b) Hazel Shade's seance.
(c) King Charles' escape.
(d) John Shade's birthday.

3. Charles Kinbote assumes John Shade wanted to write a great deal more about Zembla, but did not. Who or what does Kinbote attribute this too?
(a) Communists.
(b) Poor translation from Zemblan to English.
(c) John Shade's wife.
(d) The Shadeans.

4. When did John Shade meet his wife?
(a) 40 years ago.
(b) After his parents' funeral.
(c) During the depression.
(d) Their senior year of high school.

5. John Shade says, "There's nothing wrong with shedding a dismal past to substitute pleasing _________?"
(a) Poetry.
(b) History.
(c) Women.
(d) Imagination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event causes John Shade to have a vision of the afterlife?

2. John Shade gives a lecture on what in Canto Three?

3. Which of the following does not happen to the I.P.H.?

4. What is the assassin's real name?

5. Kinbote leaves his blinds open to give him a better view of what?

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