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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. When did John Shade meet his wife?
(a) Their senior year of high school.
(b) During the depression.
(c) After his parents' funeral.
(d) 40 years ago.

2. What are the two ways to write according to Shade in Canto Three?
(a) Indoors and outdoors.
(b) In the bathtub, and at a desk.
(c) In the mind and while writing.
(d) Literally and ironically.

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

4. During the forward Charles Kinbote oddly notes that he is distracted by who/what?
(a) Sybill Shade.
(b) Shadeans.
(c) An amusement park.
(d) A squirrel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During what time of the year does John Shade prefer to write?

2. Which of the following best describes John Shade's daughter?

3. Where was the foreword written?

4. In lines 936 and 937 of "Pale Fire" the phrase "I plow Old Zembla's fields" is used by John Shade as part of a metaphor for what literal activity?

5. What is the name of John Shade's aunt?

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