Test 2 Study Guide

1. When does Gradus first come into the story?
In the first word of Shade's poem (his character is a function of the poem itself)

2. Who are the main three characters according to Kinbote?
1. Kinbote
2. Shade
3. Gradus

3. What do the daughters of Judge Goldsworth and the Zemblan Royal family have in common?
Their names are alphbetically arranged according to the letter that they start with

4. Beauty + pity = art

5. What type of butterfly lands on Shade right before he is shot?
A Vanessa Atalanta

6. According to Kinbote, what is it that gives Shade's poem reality?
His own commentary

7. What two primary Shakespearean plays could the title of the book possibly come from?
1. Timon of Athens
2. Hamlet

8. What does "kinbote" mean in Zemblan?
king killer (Botkin = dagger/stilleto)

9. What is the password?
pity

10. How does Shade predict his own death?
In the last refrain of the poem (the gardener)

11. Where in the poem does Hazel commit suicide?
The exact center (line 500)

12. Who gives Gradus a ride to Dulwich Lane to kill Kinbote?
Gerald Emerald

13. Ultima Thule means what?
"ultimate land"

14. What was the title that Kinbote thought Shade should give to his poem?
Solus Rex ("sun king"; also a chess problem)

15. Who translated, albeit poorly, Timon of Athens into Zemblan?
Jack Conmal

16. According to the index, what is Zembla?
A distant northern land

17. What word game does Shade like?
Word Golf , an example of which can be found in the index changing one letter at a time to form a new word (from last to male in index)

18. Who is the toilest?
T.S. Eliot

19. What is the misprint on which Shade had based life everlasting?
white "mountain" instead of white "fountain"

20. What does Kinbote think the last line of the poem should be?
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain (A repetition of the first line of the poem)

21. What is the one thing that Kinbote says he cannot forgive?
treason
-->Shade says he can forgive everything other than not having read the assigned text

22. Just this. Not text, but texture.

23. What are the names of the two books (the first and last) at Judge Goldsworth's house?
1. Forever Amber
2. The Prisoner of Zenda

24. Kinbote is like who?
Hazel Shade -- both have a tendency to reverse words

25. What does "Bretwit" (pg. 180) mean?
Chess intelligence

26. Zembla = resemblance

27. IPH
Institution for the Preparation of the Hereafter

28. How many days does it take to write each of the Cantos?
3-7-7-3

29. What is Kinbote's supposed wife's full name?
Paradisa Duchess of Payn and Moan

30. Ampersand
& (brought with the dropping of the rubber band)



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