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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 “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) Dunsmuir.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Montague.
(d) William’s Flat.

2. Where in New Orleans does the tour guide describe sidewalks that may “feature entertainment by pickaninnies who will tap-dance for pennies” in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Bourbon Street.
(b) Lafayette Street.
(c) Dauphin Street.
(d) Burgundy Street.

3. H.H. says he and Lolita were “somewhere between Snow and” what town when they got a flat in Part 2, Chapter 19?
(a) Corfu.
(b) Champion.
(c) Beardsley.
(d) Lepingville.

4. How much does H.H. say his “little concubine” weighs now in Part 2, Chapter 15?
(a) 68 pounds.
(b) 90 pounds.
(c) 97 pounds.
(d) 107 pounds.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Of Lolita’s tennis abilities, the narrator says in Part 2, Chapter 20 that one of the pearls of her game “was a short half-volley that Ned Litam had taught her” where?

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

5. What was the girl’s name who accompanied “Dr. Gratiano Forbeson, Mirandola, NY,” according to the motel clerk in Part 2, Chapter 23?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Miss Pratt advise H.H. regarding his stepdaughter’s sexual education in Part 2, Chapter 11?

3. What does H.H. describe about his and Lolita’s experiences at the cinema in Part 2, Chapter 3?

4. Who does H.H. believe to be following him and Lolita in Part 2, Chapter 18? For how long has he been tailed?

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

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

7. How has Lolita’s behavior toward H.H. changed in Part 2, Chapter 3? What are his principle motivations in this chapter?

8. How does Vladimir Nabokov demonstrate irony in Part 2, Chapter 2?

9. Where does H.H. meet the character named Rita in Part 2? How does he describe their relationship?

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

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