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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How do the Shade's spend the evening of their daughter's blind date?
(a) Writing poems.
(b) Studying birds.
(c) Reading.
(d) Watching television.
2. Charles Kinbote assumes John Shade wanted to write a great deal more about Zembla, but did not. Who or what does Kinbote attribute this too?
(a) Communists.
(b) The Shadeans.
(c) John Shade's wife.
(d) Poor translation from Zemblan to English.
3. Of the following, what do John Shade and the assassin have in common?
(a) They were both Zemblan kings.
(b) They both were orphaned.
(c) They were both born in Russia.
(d) They both had aunts who were put in an asylum.
4. During what time of the year does John Shade prefer to write?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Upon the conclusion of the Zemblan harvest.
(d) Spring.
5. What happened to Shade's parents when he was a boy?
(a) They put him up for adoption.
(b) They divorced/seperated.
(c) They were imprisoned.
(d) They died.
6. John Shade vows to further explore what in Canto Two?
(a) The Zemblan Kings and their Gods.
(b) The depths of human consciousness.
(c) The possibility of an afterlife.
(d) Reincarnation vs. heaven and hell.
7. Kinbote leaves his blinds open to give him a better view of what?
(a) Garden Avenue.
(b) The gardener.
(c) The library.
(d) The Shade's living room.
8. Which Pope is mentioned in the commentary to Line 85?
(a) Benedict IX.
(b) Alexander I.
(c) Stephen II.
(d) Pius X.
9. Which of the following has Shade renounced?
(a) His country.
(b) His family.
(c) His friends.
(d) His religion.
10. Charles Kinbote "mercifully " attributes this name to one professor, perhaps due to his green jacket.
(a) Jim Coates.
(b) Gerald Emerald.
(c) Green Velvet.
(d) Dr. Nattochdag.
11. Which of the following does not happen to the I.P.H.?
(a) It becomes frequented by Freudians.
(b) It becomes a place where fake seances are held.
(c) It becomes more Buddhist.
(d) It is turned into a church.
12. King Alfin the Vague was an amateur______ .
(a) Ornothologist.
(b) Pilot.
(c) Poet.
(d) Gardener.
13. According to Kinbote, who was Thurgus the Third's lover?
(a) Maude Shade.
(b) Iris Acht.
(c) Oleg.
(d) Fleur.
14. How does King Charles get out of the room where he is being held prisoner without being detected?
(a) He makes a rope ladder and climbs out the window.
(b) He disguses himself as a guard and walks out the front door.
(c) He seduces a guard who sets him free.
(d) He escapes through a secret passageway.
15. How do the people of Zembla aid in King Charles' flight?
(a) They dress like him to serve as decoys.
(b) They fight off the Extremists.
(c) They provide Charles refuge along the way.
(d) They create a distraction with a hot air balloon.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following is not among John Shade's pet peeves?
2. In lines 936 and 937 of "Pale Fire" the phrase "I plow Old Zembla's fields" is used by John Shade as part of a metaphor for what literal activity?
3. "Forty ounces of fine sand" describes what in Canto One?
4. Who is King Alfin the Vague's son?
5. According to Kinbote, where did Sybil Shade relocate to upon John Shade's death?
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