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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Commentary, Line 109: iridule through Line 130: I never bounced a ball or swung a bat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two most important things in Shade's life?
(a) His poetry and his wife.
(b) His wife and Charles Kinbote.
(c) His Zemblan heritage and his wife.
(d) His job as a professor and his wife.

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

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

4. Which of the following most closely describes Kinbote's depiction by university drama students?
(a) A pompus woman-hater with a German accent.
(b) A brilliant writer and professor who is loyal to his friend John Shade.
(c) A displaced Zemblan king on the run from assassins.
(d) A raving lunatic with no perception of reality.

5. Kinbote leaves his blinds open to give him a better view of what?
(a) The gardener.
(b) Garden Avenue.
(c) The library.
(d) The Shade's living room.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Shade is skeptical but he wants to believe in what?

2. The phrase "pale fire" is used in the foreword to describe what?

3. Which of the following best describes King Alfin the Vague?

4. Who is King Alfin the Vague's son?

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

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