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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. Of the following, which most accurately describes the lines in the first stanza of Canto One?
(a) They have the same number of words
(b) They are symetrical.
(c) They are written in ryhming couplets.
(d) They lack punctuation

2. John Shade vows to further explore what in Canto Two?
(a) Reincarnation vs. heaven and hell.
(b) The possibility of an afterlife.
(c) The depths of human consciousness.
(d) The Zemblan Kings and their Gods.

3. When a visiting professor requests a picture of King Charles, who goes to get it?
(a) John Shade.
(b) Gerald Emerald.
(c) Dr. Sutton.
(d) Charles Kinbote.

4. Why did King Charles' marriage fail?
(a) His wife was captured.
(b) His wife could not bear children.
(c) He is a homosexual.
(d) His wife cheated on him.

5. 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) The Shadeans.
(c) Communists.
(d) John Shade's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the following, who is not mentioned in the first Canto?

2. What did Charles Kinbote do with the cat?

3. John Shade's daughter is how old at the beginning of Canto Three?

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?"

5. According to Kinbote Russians search for what Zemblan treasure?

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