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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. 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?
(a) The Doll Act.
(b) The Robinson Act.
(c) The Mann Act.
(d) The Tate Act.

2. The narrator describes the “Time” in his scenario with Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 13 as being in what month?
(a) June.
(b) November.
(c) April.
(d) September.

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

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

5. Of Lolita’s tennis abilities, the narrator says in Part 2, Chapter 20 that one of the pearls of her game “was a short half-volley that Ned Litam had taught her” where?
(a) “In Texas.”
(b) “In California.”
(c) “In Illinois.”
(d) “In Washington.”

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom had Lolita spent a rainy summer in a dilapidated Appalachian farmhouse, according to the narrator in Part 2, Chapter 1?

2. H.H. says he and Lolita were “somewhere between Snow and” what town when they got a flat in Part 2, Chapter 19?

3. Where do H.H. and Lolita stay in a two-room cabin in Elphinstone in Part 2, Chapter 22?

4. Of his experience with Lolita earlier in the morning, the narrator says in Part 1, Chapter 14, “I felt proud of myself. I had stolen the honey of a spasm without impairing the morals of” what?

5. Where does H.H. describe seeing a “boulder, with a plaque, in memory of the author of “Trees” in Part 2, Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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