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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 30-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 1912
(b) 1931
(c) 1924
(d) 1919

2. 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 coconut.
(c) A banana.
(d) An orange.

3. The narrator states in Part 1, Chapter 1, “You can always count on a murderer for” what?
(a) “A solid alibi.”
(b) “A fancy prose style.”
(c) “A turn of matching turns.”
(d) “A silent, wicked lie.”

4. Of his wife Charlotte, H.H. says in Part 1, Chapter 18, “the only couple with whom she had relations of real cordiality, devoid of any arriõre-pensèe or practical foresight, were” with what couple that had just returned from Chile?
(a) The Galsworthys.
(b) The Farlows.
(c) The Chapmans.
(d) The Hamiltons.

5. Who has rented H.H. and Lolita a house in Part 2, Chapter 3?
(a) Gaston Grodin.
(b) Gustave Trapp.
(c) John Galsworthy.
(d) John Farlow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Charlotte tells H.H. in Part 1, Chapter 18 that if he “did not believe in Our Christian God, she would” do what?

2. What was Annabel’s last name, according to the narrator in Part 1, Chapter 3?

3. Who is the “fadedly feminine” English professor that lives with Miss Lester, according to the narrator in Part 2, Chapter 5?

4. What is ART described as standing for in Part 2, Chapter 2?

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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