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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. Because the picnic is postponed, Lolita refuses to go where with her mother in Part 1, Chapter 13?
(a) To church.
(b) To the shoe store.
(c) To the hospital.
(d) To the grocery store.

2. Charlotte Haze says of her daughter in Part 1, Chapter 15 that she sees her as “a sturdy, healthy, but decidedly homely kid,” whereas Lolita sees herself as what?
(a) A starlet.
(b) A visionary.
(c) A nymphet.
(d) A rebel.

3. What location is described as the “home of the Wild Bill Something Rodeo” in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Cody, Wyoming.
(b) Durango, Colorado.
(c) Billings, Montana.
(d) Abilene, Kansas.

4. In describing his feelings for Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 14, the narrator says, “The elation with which the vision of new delights filled me was not horrible but” what?
(a) “Amusing.”
(b) “Sickening.”
(c) “Inspiring.”
(d) “Pathetic.”

5. H.H. describes inspecting “a collection of European hotel picture post cards in a museum devoted to hobbies” at a resort where, in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Indiana.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Florida.

Short Answer Questions

1. Among whom does the narrator claim in Part 2, Chapter 1 “sexual relations between a father and his daughter are accepted as a matter of course”?

2. 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?

3. Of what act does the narrator say he deplores “as lending itself to a dreadful pun, the revenge that the Gods of Semantics take against tight-zippered Philistines” in Part 2, Chapter 1?

4. Who is Bill Mead’s companion on the tennis courts in Part 2, Chapter 20?

5. The narrator describes the “Time” in his scenario with Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 13 as being in what month?

(see the answer key)

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