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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) 4'6''
(c) 5'1''
(d) 4'10''

2. Where did Annabel die?
(a) Russia.
(b) Corfu.
(c) Chicago.
(d) England.

3. 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?
(a) Mary Rose Hamilton.
(b) Elizabeth Talbot.
(c) Eva Rosin.
(d) Rosaline Honeck.

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

5. H.H. hears that Mr. and Mrs. McCoo have a daughter how old in Part 1, Chapter 10?
(a) 10
(b) 7
(c) 12
(d) 16

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say Lolita’s name was “on the dotted line” in Part 1, Chapter 1?

2. How old was H.H. when his mother died?

3. 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?

4. 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?

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?

(see the answer key)

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