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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Commentary, Line 469: his gun through Line 493: She took her poor young life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Charles Kinbote thinks the reference to "that crystal land" in line 12 refers to what place?
(a) Zembla.
(b) Russia.
(c) New Wye.
(d) Quebec.

2. What event causes John Shade to have a vision of the afterlife?
(a) He has a heart attack.
(b) He suffers a stroke.
(c) He is hit by a car.
(d) He gets lost in the Zemblan Mountains without food or water.

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

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

5. Whose spirit supposedly haunts the barn?
(a) King Charles.
(b) Hazel Shade.
(c) The farmer who used to sleep there.
(d) King Alfin the Vague.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Charles Kinbote gave John Shade a detailed drawing of King Charles' castle; what does he want John Shade's wife to do with the picture?

3. Who makes sexual advances on King Charles during the commentary to line 149?

4. How does King Charles flee Zembla?

5. Which of the following is not mentioned by Shade in Canto One?

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