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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 does Lolita carry in her hands when H.H. encounters her on Sunday morning in Part 1, Chapter 13?
(a) An apple.
(b) A banana.
(c) A coconut.
(d) An orange.

2. The narrator states in Part 2, Chapter 2, “I dimly evoke that Magnolia Garden in a southern state which cost me four bucks and which, according to the ad in the book, you must visit for three reasons.” The first of these reasons is because what “stone-dead writer of sorts” acclaimed it as the world’s fairest garden?
(a) John Galsworthy.
(b) Vladimir Nabokov.
(c) Richard Schiller.
(d) James Joyce.

3. What does H.H. tell Lolita the blue pills are that he pretends to take in Part 1, Chapter 27?
(a) Vitamin A.
(b) Vitamin K.
(c) Vitamin X.
(d) Vitamin D.

4. Who is the college clergyman that also teaches Bible at Beardsley School in Part 2, Chapter 8?
(a) Linda Hall
(b) Vanessa van Ness.
(c) Clare Quilty.
(d) Shirley Holmes.

5. H.H. describes inspecting “a collection of European hotel picture post cards in a museum devoted to hobbies” at a resort where, in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Florida.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Arkansas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the camp that Charlotte Haze is sending Lolita to in Part 1, Chapter 15?

2. What kind of art does Valeria produce?

3. What town is described in Part 2, Chapter 16 as being “only thirty miles north from [Lolita’s] home town”?

4. To whom does Miss Pratt say Lolita is “impossibly rude” in Part 2, Chapter 11?

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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