QUIZ 2

1.When does Gradus first come into the story? He comes into the story when John shade begins the first word of the poem.
2.Who does Kinbote say is the main characters? K, S, and G
3.What does the Zemblan royal family and the daughters of Goldsworth have in common? All in Alphabetical
4.According to Nabokov, Beauty + ______ = Art. Pity
5.What type of butterfly lands on Shade just before he is shot? Vanessa Atalanta
6.According to Kinbote, what gives John Shade's poem reality? My commentary
7.At least two Shakespearean plays that give rise to the title “pale fire”? Hamlet and Timon of Athens
8.In Zemblan, the name Kinbote means? King Killer
9.What is the password? Pity
10.How does Jana think Shade predicts his own death in the last refrain of the poem? The Gardener
The Blind date thing (Hazel, Lake, Dead! OH NO!)
11.When in the poem does Hazel commit suicide? The exact middle
12.Who gives Gradus a lift to the murder of Shade? Gerald Emerald
13.Ultima Thule means? The ultimate land
14.What was Kinbote's title for John Shade's poem? Solis Rex
15.Who translated Timon of Athens into Zemblan? Uncle Conmal
16.According to the index, What is Zembla? “A distant northern land”
17.What word game does Shade have a fondness for? Word golf....a six degrees of separation
18.Who is the toilest? T.S. Eliot
19. What is the misprint on which he had based life everlasting? Mountain for fountain or fountain for mountain
20.What does Kinbote think the last line of the poem is? Repetition of the first line of the poem
21.Kinbote says he can forgive everything except for one thing? Treason
22.Just this, not text but _____? Texture (he'll word it differently for sure)
23.The two books, one at beginning of alphabet, one at the end, that Kinbote read at the Judge's house? Forever Amber and The Prisoner of Zenda
24.In certain respects, Kinbote does resemble _______? Hazel
25.How? Powder = red wop , spider = redips
26.What does “Bretwit” mean? Chess intelligence
27.IPH = Institution for the Preparation of the Hereafter
28.How many days does it take for each canto? 3, 7, 7, 3
29.Kinbote's supposed wife full name and title? Paradisa the Duchess of Pain & Moan
30.& = What is it when dropped always makes this ampersand? Rubber Band