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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Commentary, Line 469: his gun through Line 493: She took her poor young life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Shade claim is incorrect in its meaning?
(a) Pail.
(b) Waxwings.
(c) Colored.
(d) Obriols.

2. Which Pope is mentioned in the commentary to Line 85?
(a) Benedict IX.
(b) Stephen II.
(c) Pius X.
(d) Alexander I.

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

4. Who tells Kinbote the Shades' vacation destination?
(a) John Shade's secretary.
(b) John Shade.
(c) Kinbote's doctor.
(d) The gardener.

5. John Shade is skeptical but he wants to believe in what?
(a) His daughther is still alive.
(b) The after-life.
(c) His lineage of Zemblan Kings.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. A fellow-professor calls Charles Kinbote by what nickname?

2. Charles Kinbote thinks the reference to "that crystal land" in line 12 refers to what place?

3. Who or what does John Shade claim to see in his near-death experience?

4. What is the first metaphor Shade uses to describe himself?

5. Which of the following best describes a recurring theme in the first Canto?

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