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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. Who raises John Shade during his childhood?
(a) His aunt.
(b) Dr. Sutton.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

2. What is the assassin's real name?
(a) Jack Degree.
(b) Jake Ravus.
(c) Jacques de Gray.
(d) Jakob Gradus.

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

4. In Canto Two we find that Shade's daughter had been vacationing in what faraway place?
(a) Zembla.
(b) New Wye.
(c) Quebec.
(d) France.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the following, which has been added to Shade's childhood home?

2. How does John Shade understand his life?

3. "Forty ounces of fine sand" describes what in Canto One?

4. What does Shade find out when he tracks down the woman who had the same vision of the after-life that he did?

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

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