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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Richard Schiller.
(b) Vladimir Nabokov.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) John Galsworthy.

2. With whom is Lolita allowed to take piano lessons in Part 2, Chapter 14?
(a) Miss Gold.
(b) Miss Emperor.
(c) Miss Cormorant.
(d) Miss Phalen.

3. Who reports that Lolita’s “tennis form is excellent to superb” in Part 2, Chapter 11?
(a) Miss Cormorant.
(b) Miss Molar.
(c) Miss Gold.
(d) Miss Redcock.

4. Of what act does the narrator say he deplores “as lending itself to a dreadful pun, the revenge that the Gods of Semantics take against tight-zippered Philistines” in Part 2, Chapter 1?
(a) The Robinson Act.
(b) The Mann Act.
(c) The Doll Act.
(d) The Tate Act.

5. Which of Lolita’s school friends is described in Part 2, Chapter 9 as “handsome in a coarse sensual way and only a year older than my aging mistress”?
(a) Eva Rosen.
(b) Mona Dahl.
(c) Linda Hall.
(d) Shirley Holmes.

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

7. H.H. tells Lolita in Part 2, Chapter 1 that if she should go to the authorities, he will be arrested but she will become the ward of whom?
(a) The Department of Orphaned Children.
(b) The Department of the Treasury.
(c) The Department of Child Health.
(d) The Department of Public Welfare.

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

9. Where does H.H. describe seeing a “boulder, with a plaque, in memory of the author of “Trees” in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Pine Point, Maine.
(b) Maple Hill, Pennsylvania.
(c) Poplar Cove, North Carolina.
(d) Birch Knoll, New York.

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

11. H.H. describes finding over twenty-four dollars hoarded by Lolita in a hole in the wall behind what painting in Part 2, Chapter 7?
(a) Whistler's Mother.
(b) Starry Night.
(c) The Mona Lisa.
(d) Water Lillies.

12. What “ghost town in New Mexico, where bad man Russian Bill was colorfully hanged seventy years ago” does H.H. describe visiting with Lolita in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Montague.
(b) Dunsmuir.
(c) William’s Flat.
(d) Shakespeare.

13. Where do H.H. and Lolita stay in a two-room cabin in Elphinstone in Part 2, Chapter 22?
(a) Silver Spur Court.
(b) Diamond Lake Court.
(c) Emerald Bay Court.
(d) Golden Spike Court.

14. The narrator says of Lolita’s friend Mona in Part 2, Chapter 9 that she “was burdened with” an I.Q. of what?
(a) 62
(b) 89
(c) 150
(d) 125

15. What is the name of the cleaning woman who H.H. “inherited with the vacuum cleaner from the previous tenants” in Part 2, Chapter 5?
(a) Miss Honeck.
(b) Miss Chapman.
(c) Miss Dunn.
(d) Mrs. Holigan.

Short Answer Questions

1. The person who checked Lolita out of the hospital in Part 2, Chapter 22 is said to have brought her what?

2. How many times does H.H. say he visited Lolita at the hospital in Part 2, Chapter 22?

3. Inside of what book of Lolita’s does H.H. say he once discovered eight one-dollar notes in Part 2, Chapter 7?

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?

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

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