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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Commentary, Line 681: gloomy Russians spied through Line 691: the attack.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. On what day did John Shade begin composing his poem "Pale Fire?"
(a) We are not told explicitly, only that it is during the summer.
(b) July 4th.
(c) July 5th.
(d) July 1st.

3. John Shade's daughter is how old at the beginning of Canto Three?
(a) A senior in high school.
(b) 6 months.
(c) We don't know exactly, only that she's a small child.
(d) 18.

4. What happened to Shade's parents when he was a boy?
(a) They died.
(b) They were imprisoned.
(c) They put him up for adoption.
(d) They divorced/seperated.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the secret group that sends an assassin after King Charles?

2. 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?"

3. Joseph S. Lavender is a collector of what?

4. What animal did Shade's parents study?

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

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