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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. King Alfin the Vague was an amateur______ .
(a) Ornothologist.
(b) Gardener.
(c) Poet.
(d) Pilot.

2. Of the following, what do John Shade and the assassin have in common?
(a) They both were orphaned.
(b) They were both Zemblan kings.
(c) They both had aunts who were put in an asylum.
(d) They were both born in Russia.

3. Charles Kinbote assumes John Shade wanted to write a great deal more about Zembla, but did not. Who or what does Kinbote attribute this too?
(a) Poor translation from Zemblan to English.
(b) John Shade's wife.
(c) Communists.
(d) The Shadeans.

4. Charles Kinbote wants the reader to see the image of who/what after reading the lines 131-132, "I was the waxing slain by feigned remoteness in the windowpane?"
(a) Sybil Shade.
(b) Himself.
(c) Gradus.
(d) John Shade's blackouts.

5. How does John Shade's daughter die?
(a) She freezes to death in a field.
(b) She poisons herself.
(c) She steps in front of a train.
(d) She drowns.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. John Shade vows to further explore what in Canto Two?

3. How do the people of Zembla aid in King Charles' flight?

4. Canto Four contains a metaphor comparing this activity to John Shade's writing process?

5. Who is the previous inhabitant of Charles Kinbote's house?

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