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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 11-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Charlotte Haze’s neighbor across the street who is described as an invalid?
(a) Miss Cormorant.
(b) Miss Phalen.
(c) Miss Gold.
(d) Miss Opposite.

2. Where does the narrator say he loved “a certain initial girl-child” prior to Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) “A princedom by the sea.”
(b) “Behind a famous museum.”
(c) “In a stagnant swamp.”
(d) “On a magical mountaintop.”

3. With whom had Lolita spent a rainy summer in a dilapidated Appalachian farmhouse, according to the narrator in Part 2, Chapter 1?
(a) Miss Cormorant.
(b) Miss Gold.
(c) Miss Redcock.
(d) Miss Phalen.

4. What location does the narrator describe in Part 2, Chapter 2, as somber with “its colored hot springs, baby geysers, rainbows of bubbling mud--symbols of my passion”?
(a) Crater Lake Park.
(b) Yellowstone Park.
(c) Yosemite Park.
(d) Glacier Park.

5. What is the name of the camp that Charlotte Haze is sending Lolita to in Part 1, Chapter 15?
(a) Camp A.
(b) Camp J.
(c) Camp Q.
(d) Camp Q.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Part 2, Chapter 1 that after zig-zagging across the country with Lolita from August 1947 to August 1948, they eventually petered out and settled in what college town?

2. Where does Lolita passionately desire to see the Ceremonial Dances marking the seasonal opening of Magic Cave, in Part 2, Chapter 16?

3. In what play does Miss Pratt say that Lolita must be allowed to participate in Part 2, Chapter 11?

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

5. In describing his feelings for Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 14, the narrator says, “The elation with which the vision of new delights filled me was not horrible but” what?

(see the answer key)

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