Review for Quiz

**go to Rachel's blog and read A Bolt from the Blue by Mary McCarthy, it is pretty much the study guide for this class.....almost.

1. When did Gradus first come into the story? When John Shade writes the first word of the poem, Gradus is born with the poem
2. According to Kinbote, who are the main characters? Kinbote, Shade, and Gradus
3. What did the royal Zemblan family and the daughters of Goldsworth have in common? in alphabetical order.
4. Beauty + Pity = Art
5. What type of butterfly lands on Shade before he was shot? Vanessa Atalanta
6. According to Kinbote what gives Shade's poem reality? Kinbote's commentary.
7. What two Shakespearean plays does the title Pale Fire derive from? Hamlet and Timon of Athens
8. In Zemblan, what does Kinbote mean? King Killer.....how does that fit Kinbote?
9. What is the password? pity. What does he mean by pity?
10. How does Shade predict his own death? Jana's blog, last refrain of the poem......the gardener.
11. Where in the poem does Hazel commit suicide? In the exact center of the poem.....butterfly
12. Who gives Gradus a ride to the assassination location? Gerald Emerald
13. Ultima thule = the ultimate land and the name of a short story by Nabokov
14. What was Kinbote's title for John Shade's poem? Solus Rex, Sun King, King Alone
15. Who translated Timon of Athens into Zemblan? Uncle Conmal - wrong translation though
16. According to the Index for Zembla: A distant northern land.
17. What word game does Shade have a predilection for? word golf
18. Who is the toilest? T.S. Eliot
19. What is the misprint on which Shade had based life everlasting? the typo that said white fountain instead of white mtn.
20. What does Kinbote think the last line of the poem is? the first line repeated.
21. Kinbote can forgive everything save one thing: treason
22. Just this. Not text, but texture.
23. Forever Amber, and The Prisoner of Zenda
24. Kinbote....identifies with Hazel......reversing words, redips/spider, redwop/powder
25. Bretwit means chess intelligence, pg 180
26. Zembla = resemblance
27. IPH = if = Institution of the Preparation for the Hereafter.
28. How many days does it take to write each canto? 3,7,7,3.......butterfly???
29. What is Kinbote's wife's name? Paradisa - Duchess of Pain and Moan
30. Draw an ampersand.....&.......the dropped rubber band.



** btw, our papers are due on the day of our presentation, and we are doing presentations in reverse alphabetical order if I understood that right.