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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 13-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Valeria tells H.H. that she has another man in her life who is an ex-colonel from where?
(a) Spain.
(b) Germany.
(c) Italy.
(d) Russia.

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

5. 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?
(a) 1924
(b) 1919
(c) 1912
(d) 1931

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is H.H. unable to stay at the McCoos’ home in Part 1, Chapter 10?

2. What is the name of the dentist that Mrs. Haze uses that is also her neighbor in Part 1, Chapter 14?

3. 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?

4. What name does the narrator give the “main character” in his described scenario with Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 13?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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