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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 is the name of John Shade's aunt?
(a) Hazel.
(b) She is never mentioned by name.
(c) Maude.
(d) Sybil.

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

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

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

5. Charles Kinbote criticizes an article written by Professor Hurley for what reason?
(a) The article does not mention "Pale Fire."
(b) The article doesn't mention Kinbote and Shade's friendship.
(c) It does not mention Zembla.
(d) The article is critical of John Shade.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kinbote is steadfast in his assertion that "Pale Fire" was intended to be how many lines long?

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

3. Where did Kinbote and Shade meet?

4. Of the following, who is not mentioned in the first Canto?

5. The final couplet of "Pale Fire" describes what image?

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