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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 7-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does H.H. hear that the McCoos have a room to rent in Part 1, Chapter 10?
(a) Briceland.
(b) Kasbeam.
(c) Ramsdale.
(d) Independent.

2. The narrator describes Lolita as standing how tall “in one sock” in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) 4'6''
(b) 5'1''
(c) 5’3”
(d) 4'10''

3. What is the full name of H.H. in the novel?
(a) Harold Haroldson.
(b) Henry Handson.
(c) Howard Helgeson.
(d) Humbert Humbert.

4. What did Annabel die from?
(a) Typhus.
(b) Giardiasis.
(c) Lyme disease.
(d) Amebiasis.

5. Where does H.H. go on a twenty-month expedition as a “recorder of psychic reactions”?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Kenya.
(c) Ecuador.
(d) Canada.

Short Answer Questions

1. Charlotte Haze is described by the narrator in Part 1, Chapter 10 as having “quite simple but not unattractive features of a type that may be defined as a weak solution of” whom?

2. How does H.H. remove a speck from Lolita’s eye in Part 1, Chapter 11?

3. The narrator describes a pocket diary with what golden year inscribed in its upper left-hand corner in Part 1, Chapter 11?

4. H.H. says it was June of what year when a “stray canary had fluttered into [Annabel’s] house and mine, in two widely separated countries” in Part 1, Chapter 4?

5. In the final line of Part 1, Chapter 1, the narrator addresses the “ladies and gentlemen of the jury,” saying “Look at this tangle of” what?

(see the answer key)

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