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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Commentary, Line 71: parents through Line 101: No free man needs a God.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not mentioned by Shade in Canto One?
(a) Dr. Sutton.
(b) A baseball game.
(c) The sky.
(d) The Zemblan countryside.

2. What is the assassin's real name?
(a) Jake Ravus.
(b) Jacques de Gray.
(c) Jack Degree.
(d) Jakob Gradus.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does not happen to the I.P.H.?

2. What event causes John Shade to have a vision of the afterlife?

3. Charles Kinbote criticizes an article written by Professor Hurley for what reason?

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

5. Which of the following has Shade renounced?

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