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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 18-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lolita shows H.H. at picture from a magazine in Part 1, Chapter 13. In the picture, a surrealist painter is relaxing on a beach near a plaster replica of what work of art?
(a) Davi.
(b) The Great Sphinx.
(c) The Venus de Milo.
(d) The Moai.

2. H.H. describes going with Lolita to see “granite obelisk commemorating the Battle of” what, in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) “Bull Run.”
(b) “Wounded Knee.”
(c) “Blue Licks.”
(d) “Goose Green.”

3. The narrator states in Part 2, Chapter 1 that after zig-zagging across the country with Lolita from August 1947 to August 1948, they eventually petered out and settled in what college town?
(a) Abilene.
(b) Briceland.
(c) Ramsdale.
(d) Beardsley.

4. On the Sunday when H.H., Charlotte Haze, and Lolita are to go on a picnic, what friend of Lolita’s cancels because she is sick in Part 1, Chapter 13?
(a) Mary Rose Hamilton.
(b) Rosaline Honeck.
(c) Elizabeth Talbot.
(d) Eva Rosin.

5. What location does the narrator describe in Part 2, Chapter 2, as somber with “its colored hot springs, baby geysers, rainbows of bubbling mud--symbols of my passion”?
(a) Glacier Park.
(b) Yellowstone Park.
(c) Yosemite Park.
(d) Crater Lake Park.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times does H.H. say he visited Lolita at the hospital in Part 2, Chapter 22?

2. What is the name of Charlotte Haze’s late husband and Lolita’s father in the novel?

3. To what doctor does H.H. take Lolita when she becomes ill in Part 2, Chapter 22?

4. When Lolita becomes ill in Part 2, Chapter 22, H.H. says he immediately thinks of what, “as any American parent would”?

5. The camp that Charlotte Haze is sending Lolita to in Part 1, Chapter 14 is run by whom?

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