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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Commentary, Line 167: There was a time, etc. through Line 171: A great conspiracy.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the secret group that sends an assassin after King Charles?
(a) The Freudians.
(b) The Marxists.
(c) The Extreme.
(d) The Shadows.

3. John Shade is skeptical but he wants to believe in what?
(a) The after-life.
(b) His lineage of Zemblan Kings.
(c) Religion.
(d) His daughther is still alive.

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

5. According to Kinbote, who was Thurgus the Third's lover?
(a) Iris Acht.
(b) Fleur.
(c) Maude Shade.
(d) Oleg.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How many lines are in Canto Four?

4. Which of the following has Shade renounced?

5. Of the following, what do John Shade and the assassin have in common?

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