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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Commentary, Line 929: Freud though Line 949: and all the time.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Of the following, who is not mentioned in the first Canto?
(a) A Candian maid.
(b) The King of Zembla.
(c) Dr. Sutton.
(d) Shade's aunt.

3. Which of the following adjectives fits Kinbote's description of the Russians as they search the castle?
(a) Frightened.
(b) Admiringly.
(c) Obnoxiously.
(d) Unrealisticly.

4. According to Kinbote Russians search for what Zemblan treasure?
(a) A first printing of Timon of Athens.
(b) The crown of King Alfin the Vague.
(c) The journal of King Charles.
(d) The Crown Jewels.

5. Which of the following best describes King Alfin the Vague?
(a) Crafty and intelligent.
(b) Powerful and vindictive.
(c) Absent-minded and unworldly.
(d) Evil and harsh.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what day did John Shade begin composing his poem "Pale Fire?"

3. What Kinbote thought was an amusement park outside is actually what?

4. Kinbote is what religion?

5. Of the following, what do King Charles and John Shade have in common?

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