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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) $1.05
(d) $3.00

2. When Lolita becomes ill in Part 2, Chapter 22, H.H. says he immediately thinks of what, “as any American parent would”?
(a) Dysentery.
(b) Tetanus.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Poliomyelitis.

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

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

5. Which of Lolita’s friends is referred to by the narrator as “the school tennis champion” in Part 2, Chapter 9?
(a) Linda Hall.
(b) Vanessa van Ness.
(c) Shirley Holmes.
(d) Clare Quilty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. H.H. describes visiting the “starting point of the Old Oregon Trail” where in Part 2, Chapter 2?

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

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do H.H. and Lolita go after leaving the Enchanted Hunters Inn in Part 2, Chapter 1? Where do they stay?

2. How does H.H. effectively manipulate Lolita into secrecy regarding their sexual relationship in Part 2, Chapter 1?

3. When does Miss Pratt call H.H. to a meeting in Part 2, Chapter 11? What are his impressions as he enters the meeting?

4. How does H.H. describe his and Lolita’s arrival in Beardsley in Part 2, Chapter 4? Why has he come here?

5. Where does Lolita claim to have been during her absence in Part 2, Chapter 19? How does H.H. respond?

6. How does H.H. go about finding the missing Lolita in Part 2, Chapter 19?

7. How does the narrator characterize Lolita’s demeanor in Part 2, Chapter 1?

8. What does Lolita’s school friend write to her in Part 2, Chapter 19? What happens as H.H. reads the letter?

9. Why does H.H. regret not going to Mexico in Part 2, Chapter 3?

10. How does H.H. describe his motivations for writing down this information in Part 2, Chapter 2? What does he describe?

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