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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. What happens to John Shade's aunt?
(a) She drowns in a lake.
(b) She has a stroke and is moved to a sanitarium.
(c) She has a heart attack and dies.
(d) She falls down the stairs and breaks her hip.

2. Which pair best describe the prominent motifs of the first Canto?
(a) Windows and snow.
(b) Innocence and loss.
(c) Nature and technology.
(d) Nature and death.

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

4. Which of the following best describes John Shade's daughter?
(a) Introverted, but fascinating.
(b) Unattractive and intellegent.
(c) Humble and worried.
(d) Attractive, but tormented.

5. Kinbote criticizes the passage in which Shade alternates between the story of his daughter's death, and what he and his wife are doing at the time. What is his major criticism of this passage?
(a) It is too drawn out.
(b) It doesn't rhyme.
(c) It is unrealistic.
(d) It is not sincere enough.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the extremists try to prevent King Charles from leaving the country?

2. Who is Kinbote's primary source of information on John Shade's daughter?

3. Which of the following is not among John Shade's pet peeves?

4. Charles Kinbote "mercifully " attributes this name to one professor, perhaps due to his green jacket.

5. Which Pope is mentioned in the commentary to Line 85?

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