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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pale Fire, Canto Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the Shade's travel to take their minds off their daughter's death?
(a) Italy.
(b) Zembla.
(c) New Wye.
(d) France.

2. John Shade gives a lecture on what in Canto Three?
(a) Death.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Birds.
(d) Zembla.

3. How do the Shade's spend the evening of their daughter's blind date?
(a) Writing poems.
(b) Studying birds.
(c) Reading.
(d) Watching television.

4. Who or what does John Shade claim to see in his near-death experience?
(a) The Zemblan Mountains.
(b) His daughter.
(c) A fountain.
(d) His Wife.

5. Of the following, which most accurately describes the lines in the first stanza of Canto One?
(a) They are symetrical.
(b) They lack punctuation
(c) They have the same number of words
(d) They are written in ryhming couplets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best describes a recurring theme in the first Canto?

2. John Shade vows to further explore what in Canto Two?

3. What typically goes on at the I.P.H.?

4. John Shade's daughter is how old at the beginning of Canto Three?

5. Which of the following is not mentioned by Shade in Canto One?

(see the answer key)

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