TEST REVIEW

1. How does Jana think that Shade predicted his own death? ~'And through the flowing Shade and Ebbing light/ A man, unheedful of the butterfly-/ Some neighbor's gardener, I guess- goes by/ Trundling an empty barrow up the land.'
2. What is the last line of the poem according to K? ~I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
3. When does Gradus first come into the story? ~ when Shade wrote the first line of the poem
4. Who does K say the main characters are? ~ Kinbote, Shade and Gradus
5. What did the Zemblan royal family and Goldsmith's daughters have in common? ~they were all in alphabetical order
6. Beauty + _____ = art? ~pity
7. What was the type of butterfly that lands on Shade right before his death? ~Vanessa Atalanta
8. According to K, what gives S's poem reality? ~K's commentary
9. What two Shakespearean plays do the title possibly come from? ~Timon of Athens and Hamlet
10. In Zemblan, what does Kinbote mean? ~ King killer
11. What is the password? ~pity
12. When in the poem does Hazel commit suicide? ~the exact middle
13. Who, according to K, gave Gradus a ride to Dulwich lane? ~Gerald Emerald
14. What does Ultima Thule mean? ~ the ultimate land
15. What was K's name for JS's poem? ~ Solus Rex (Sun King)
16. Who badly translated Timon of Athens into Zemblan? ~ K's uncle Conmal (name means with malice)
17. What word game does Shade love? ~word golf
18. According to the index, what is Zembla? ~ A distant, northern land
19. Who is the Toilest? ~ T. S. Eliot
20. What is the misprint of life everlasting? ~The white fountain/ mountain
21. Kinbote can forgive everything but...? ~treason
22. "Just this. Not text, but ______"? ~texture
23. What 2 books does Sam say are in Goldsmith's wife's library? ~Forever Amber and The Prisoner of Zenda
24. Who does K say he is like? Why? ~ Hazel, because they both reverse words ie- spider= redips
25. What does bretwit mean in Zemblan? ~chess intelligence
26. Zembla = ?? ~resemblance
27. IPH? ~institution for the preparation of the afterlife
28. How many days does it take to write each canto? pg 13 ~ 3,7,7,3
29. What is K's supposed wife's full name? ~Paradisa, the Duchess of Pain and Moan
30. What does an ampersand look like? "rubber band dropped" ~ &