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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When Gradus attempts to visit Joseph S. Lavender, Lavender asks Gradus if he is a/an ______?
(a) Art dealer.
(b) Spy.
(c) Assassin.
(d) Reporter.
2. Kinbote criticizes the passage in which Shade alternates between the story of his daughter's death, and what he and his wife are doing at the time. What is his major criticism of this passage?
(a) It is not sincere enough.
(b) It is unrealistic.
(c) It is too drawn out.
(d) It doesn't rhyme.
3. At his hotel Gradus receives orders from headquarters telling him to do what?
(a) Go to Disa's estate.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Take a taxi to Paris.
(d) Go to New Wye.
4. According to Kinbote, where did the Queen go when Zembla was invaded?
(a) Quebec.
(b) Cedarn.
(c) Jail.
(d) Her estate on the Riviera.
5. John Shade says, "There's nothing wrong with shedding a dismal past to substitute pleasing _________?"
(a) Imagination.
(b) History.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Women.
Short Answer Questions
1. Kinbote describes Russian soldiers giving what to Zemblan children?
2. Whose spirit supposedly haunts the barn?
3. What is John Shade doing when Charles Kinbote hallucinates that he hears his voice?
4. According to Kinbote, what is the best part of Canto Four?
5. Who does Kinbote blame for taking John Shade away from religion?
Short Essay Questions
1. When does Kinbote finally merge with King Charles as written in the Commentary?
2. What does Kinbote do when he runs into Shade on the way to the doctor's office?
3. Give a brief account of the events involving Disa and King Charles after the revolution.
4. Why does Kinbote embrace organized religion?
5. Comment on a few similarities between Charles Kinbote and King Charles.
6. What do you think of Kinbote's disregard for psychoanalysis?
7. How does Kinbote describe the Russian guards who are after the Zemblan Crown Jewels?
8. What is significant about the way Shade relates his name to the word "ombre" a French word that connotes shadows and darkness?
9. What does Kinbote write about in the commentary as the poem addresses Hazel's death?
10. How does Kinbote summarize Canto Four?
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