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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Commentary, Lines 1-4: I was the shadow of the waxwing slain, etc. through Line 70: the new TV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following has Shade renounced?
(a) His family.
(b) His country.
(c) His friends.
(d) His religion.

2. What did Charles Kinbote do with the cat?
(a) He gave it to John Shade as a birthday gift.
(b) He gave it to the maid.
(c) He accidentally poisoned it.
(d) He wrote a poem about it.

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

4. What happened to Shade's parents when he was a boy?
(a) They divorced/seperated.
(b) They died.
(c) They put him up for adoption.
(d) They were imprisoned.

5. 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 also had a daughter who passed away recently.
(b) She had a different vision.
(c) She is married to Charles Kinbote.
(d) She is a Zemblan queen.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Charles Kinbote thinks John Shade enjoyed more "creative freedom" during the composition of which Canto?

4. John Shade comes to the realization that he can not find what at the I.P.H.?

5. On what day did John Shade begin composing his poem "Pale Fire?"

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