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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. Charles Kinbote "mercifully " attributes this name to one professor, perhaps due to his green jacket.
(a) Dr. Nattochdag.
(b) Green Velvet.
(c) Gerald Emerald.
(d) Jim Coates.

2. Where was the foreword written?
(a) Russia.
(b) Cedarn, Utana.
(c) New Wye.
(d) Zembla.

3. What event causes John Shade to have a vision of the afterlife?
(a) He has a heart attack.
(b) He is hit by a car.
(c) He gets lost in the Zemblan Mountains without food or water.
(d) He suffers a stroke.

4. Of the following, which has been added to Shade's childhood home?
(a) Electricity.
(b) A garage.
(c) A chimney.
(d) A TV antenna.

5. "Pale Fire" is broken up into how many cantos?
(a) 80.
(b) 166.
(c) 334.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Shade's spend the evening of their daughter's blind date?

2. Which of the following most closely describes Kinbote's depiction by university drama students?

3. Of the following, which most accurately describes the lines in the first stanza of Canto One?

4. Which pair best describe the prominent motifs of the first Canto?

5. What happens to John Shade's aunt?

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