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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of the play The Enchanted Hunters in the novel?
(a) Vivian Darkbloom.
(b) Harold E. Haze.
(c) Mona Dahl.
(d) Clare Quilty.

2. What does H.H. describe Lolita’s weekly allowance at the end of “the Beardsley era” in Part 2, Chapter 7?
(a) $1.75
(b) $2.25
(c) $3.00
(d) $1.05

3. What woman does H.H. become involved in after Lolita’s departure in Part 2, Chapter 26?
(a) Linda.
(b) Sybil.
(c) Rosaline.
(d) Rita.

4. The narrator says in Part 2, Chapter 18, “thought to myself how those fast little articles forget everything, everything, while we, old lovers, treasure every inch of their” what?
(a) “Romance.”
(b) “Story.”
(c) “Nymphancy.”
(d) “Detail.”

5. What month is it when Miss Pratt asks H.H. to come for a talk to discuss Lolita’s progress in school in Part 2, Chapter 11?
(a) May.
(b) October.
(c) December.
(d) July.

6. 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?
(a) Ramsdale.
(b) Beardsley.
(c) Briceland.
(d) Abilene.

7. How many hotels, motels and tourist homes does H.H. say he stayed in as he tracked Lolita and her kidnapper in Part 2, Chapter 23?
(a) 125
(b) 220
(c) 342
(d) 277

8. To whom does Miss Pratt say Lolita is “defiant” in Part 2, Chapter 11?
(a) Miss Redcock.
(b) Miss Molar.
(c) Miss Gold.
(d) Miss Cormorant.

9. Among whom does the narrator claim in Part 2, Chapter 1 “sexual relations between a father and his daughter are accepted as a matter of course”?
(a) Egyptians.
(b) Sicilians.
(c) Russians.
(d) Mexicans.

10. H.H. describes visiting Little Iceberg Lake somewhere in what state in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) California.
(b) Colorado.
(c) Utah.
(d) Wyoming.

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

12. How far does H.H. say he drove to buy books for Lolita while she was hospitalized in Part 2, Chapter 22?
(a) 25 miles.
(b) 45 miles.
(c) 60 miles.
(d) 12 miles.

13. Where does H.H. describe Professor Albert Riggs living in Part 2, Chapter 24?
(a) 621 Lorenz Lane.
(b) 290 Walter Street.
(c) 24 Pritchard Road.
(d) 748 Humphrey Avenue.

14. What author of Ulysses does the narrator mention in Part 2, Chapter 18?
(a) Charlie Holmes.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Vladimir Nabokov.
(d) Jerome Dunn.

15. When H.H. and Lolita leave for a road trip in Part 2, Chapter 15, H.H. tells the Beardsley School that he is consulting on a film in Hollywood dealing with what?
(a) Existentialism.
(b) Classicism.
(c) Surrealism.
(d) Post-modernism.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Lolita becomes ill in Part 2, Chapter 22, H.H. says he immediately thinks of what, “as any American parent would”?

2. The character Vivian Darkbloom described in Part 2, Chapter 18 is an anagram for whose name?

3. Who examines Lolita when she catches “a bad chill” in Part 2, Chapter 12?

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

5. What locale is described in Part 2, Chapter 16 as the “gem of a western State where [Lolita] yearned to climb Red Rock”?

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