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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Kinbote, what is the best part of Canto Four?
(a) The rhymes.
(b) The part about Zembla.
(c) The last line.
(d) The opening.

2. According to Kinbote, what is Gradus doing while John Shade is composing Canto Four?
(a) Waiting for orders from the Shadows.
(b) Traveling to America.
(c) Spying.
(d) Shaving.

3. When Gradus attempts to visit Joseph S. Lavender, Lavender asks Gradus if he is a/an ______?
(a) Spy.
(b) Reporter.
(c) Art dealer.
(d) Assassin.

4. What does Gradus bring Oswin Bretwit?
(a) Letters between Bretwit's family members.
(b) A map of Zembla.
(c) A valuable coin collection.
(d) A newspaper.

5. Whose letter reveals the king's location to Gradus?
(a) Odon.
(b) John Shade.
(c) Charles Kinbote.
(d) Sybil Shade.

6. Who does Kinbote blame for taking John Shade away from religion?
(a) Dr. Sutton.
(b) The IPH.
(c) The Shades' daughter.
(d) Sybil Shade.

7. What is John Shade doing when Charles Kinbote hallucinates that he hears his voice?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Writing Canto Three.
(c) Golfing.
(d) Making love to his wife.

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

9. Charles Kinbote writes a brief play about what event?
(a) The Shades' vacation.
(b) King Charles' escape.
(c) Hazel Shade's seance.
(d) John Shade's birthday.

10. Kinbote rejects the idea that randomness extends into what?
(a) King Charles' assassination.
(b) Religion.
(c) Zemblan theology.
(d) The afterlife.

11. Gradus visits Oswin Bretwit in order to find information on King Charles' location. What is Oswin Bretwit's profession?
(a) A spy.
(b) A member of the Shadows.
(c) A Zemblan diplomat.
(d) A reporter.

12. Kinbote reflects on the absurdity of what?
(a) Gerald Emerald.
(b) Sybil Shade.
(c) Gradus.
(d) Psychoanalysis.

13. What does Charles Kinbote do when he finds out where the Shades' are planning to go on vacation?
(a) He sits in his house alone and drinks.
(b) He asks to go with them.
(c) He tries to convince them to stay in New Wye.
(d) He rents a house in the same town.

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

15. Joseph S. Lavender is a collector of what?
(a) Books.
(b) Zemblan art.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Ombriols.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kinbote claims the Russians are good at what sport?

2. What message did Gradus incorrectly give headquarters?

3. When a visiting professor requests a picture of King Charles, who goes to get it?

4. According to Kinbote, who gives Gradus a ride?

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?

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