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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Commentary, Line 681: gloomy Russians spied through Line 691: the attack.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. King Charles was only able to love the queen______.
(a) In his dreams.
(b) While in captivity.
(c) Before they were married.
(d) After the invasion.

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

3. According to Kinbote, King Charles lands near which city?
(a) Cedarn.
(b) Albany.
(c) Paris.
(d) Baltimore.

4. John Shade gives a lecture on what in Canto Three?
(a) Zembla.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Birds.
(d) Death.

5. What does Shade find out when he tracks down the woman who had the same vision of the after-life that he did?
(a) She also had a daughter who passed away recently.
(b) She is a Zemblan queen.
(c) She had a different vision.
(d) She is married to Charles Kinbote.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which best describes Kinbote's reason for rejecting the offer by the first potential publisher of "Pale Fire"?

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

4. According to Kinbote, what does "Ex" stand for?

5. In Canto Two we find that Shade's daughter had been vacationing in what faraway place?

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