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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When H.H. asks Lolita’s school friend about what kind of boys Lolita knows in Part 2, Chapter 9, the girl replies that they are rivals for whose affections?
(a) Reverend Riggins’.
(b) Dr. Byron's.
(c) Dr. Blue's.
(d) Gaston Grodin’s.

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

3. The narrator describes a “man having a lavish epileptic fit on the ground” where, in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
(b) Boulder Canyon State Park.
(c) Boulder Rapids State Park.
(d) Russian Gulch State Park.

4. 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) Linda Hall.
(b) Shirley Holmes.
(c) Eva Rosen.
(d) Mona Dahl.

5. Who does H.H. believe to be following him and Lolita in a red convertible in Part 2, Chapter 18?
(a) John Farlow.
(b) Dr. Byron.
(c) Richard Schiller.
(d) Gustave Trapp.

6. In what play does Miss Pratt say that Lolita must be allowed to participate in Part 2, Chapter 11?
(a) A Midsummer's Night Dream.
(b) Our Town.
(c) The Crucible.
(d) The Hunted Enchanters.

7. 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) Surrealism.
(b) Post-modernism.
(c) Classicism.
(d) Existentialism.

8. At what motel office does H.H. discover Lolita’s kidnapper has written his entry as “Dr. Gratiano Forbeson, Mirandola, NY” in Part 2, Chapter 23?
(a) Shooting Star Lodge.
(b) Dogwood Lodge.
(c) Ponderosa Lodge.
(d) Sequoia Lodge.

9. 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) Glacier Park.
(c) Yellowstone Park.
(d) Yosemite Park.

10. What locale is described in Part 2, Chapter 16 as the “gem of a western State where [Lolita] yearned to climb Red Rock”?
(a) Briceland.
(b) Lepingville.
(c) Elphinstone.
(d) Ramsdale.

11. 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) October.
(b) May.
(c) December.
(d) July.

12. How much per day does Lolita’s private hospital room cost, according to the narrator in Part 2, Chapter 22?
(a) $7
(b) $34
(c) $20
(d) $13

13. How tall does H.H. describe his “little concubine” in Part 2, Chapter 15?
(a) 64 inches.
(b) 54 inches.
(c) 45 inches.
(d) 60 inches.

14. What are the “four D’s” that are stressed at the girl’s school where Lolita begins studying in Part 2, Chapter 4?
(a) Dramatics, Details, Debating, and Drawing.
(b) Decisions, Dance, Dreams, and Dating.
(c) Dramatics, Dance, Debating, and Dating.
(d) Decisions, Dreams, Details, and Drawing.

15. Of his poem written about Lolita, H.H. says in Part 2, Chapter 25, “By psychoanalyzing this poem, I notice it is really” what?
(a) “A maniac’s masterpiece.”
(b) “A Christian’s confession.”
(c) “A sick man’s salvation.”
(d) “A criminal’s confession.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the narrator in Part 2, Chapter 23, he and Lolita had seldom made more than how many miles per day during their most recent journey?

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

4. What is the name of the “brisk, briskly rouged, blue-eyed widow who ran the motor court” in Part 2, Chapter 22?

5. Who is the college clergyman that also teaches Bible at Beardsley School in Part 2, Chapter 8?

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