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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. The narrator states in Part 2, Chapter 20, “By permitting Lolita to study acting I had, fond fool, suffered her to” what?
(a) “Live a fantasy.”
(b) “Develop a fondness for drama.”
(c) “Hide her feelings.”
(d) “Cultivate deceit.”

2. 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”?
(a) Mexicans.
(b) Russians.
(c) Egyptians.
(d) Sicilians.

3. What is the name of the “brisk, briskly rouged, blue-eyed widow who ran the motor court” in Part 2, Chapter 22?
(a) Miss Hays.
(b) Miss Redcock.
(c) Mrs. Holigan.
(d) Miss Fabian.

4. The camp that Charlotte Haze is sending Lolita to in Part 1, Chapter 14 is run by whom?
(a) John Galsworthy.
(b) Leslie Tompson.
(c) Richard Schiller.
(d) Shirley Holmes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How old was Lolita’s younger brother when he died?

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. What does Lolita carry in her hands when H.H. encounters her on Sunday morning in Part 1, Chapter 13?

5. What is the name of the camp that Charlotte Haze is sending Lolita to in Part 1, Chapter 15?

(see the answer key)

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