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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 animal did Shade's parents study?
(a) Bears.
(b) Bats.
(c) Birds.
(d) Beavers.

2. Of the following, what do John Shade and the assassin have in common?
(a) They were both Zemblan kings.
(b) They both had aunts who were put in an asylum.
(c) They both were orphaned.
(d) They were both born in Russia.

3. John Shade gives a lecture on what in Canto Three?
(a) Death.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Zembla.
(d) Birds.

4. The final couplet of "Pale Fire" describes what image?
(a) The Zemblan countryside.
(b) A gardener pushing a wheel barrow.
(c) John Shade's daughter.
(d) A bird flying into a closed window.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is not among John Shade's pet peeves?

3. After King Charles is out of the mountains, he receives a message to go to which of the following locations?

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

5. Who gives Kinbote information about John Shade's daughter?

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