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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 18-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Beardsley.
(b) Briceland.
(c) Abilene.
(d) Ramsdale.

2. H.H. describes visiting the “starting point of the Old Oregon Trail” where in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Chicago, Illinois.
(b) Independence, Missouri.
(c) Denver, Colorado.
(d) Portland, Oregon.

3. The narrator describes the “Time” in his scenario with Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 13 as being in what month?
(a) April.
(b) September.
(c) June.
(d) November.

4. Lolita shows H.H. at picture from a magazine in Part 1, Chapter 13. In the picture, a surrealist painter is relaxing on a beach near a plaster replica of what work of art?
(a) Davi.
(b) The Venus de Milo.
(c) The Great Sphinx.
(d) The Moai.

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

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. H.H. describes inspecting “a collection of European hotel picture post cards in a museum devoted to hobbies” at a resort where, in Part 2, Chapter 2?

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 far does H.H. say he drove to buy books for Lolita while she was hospitalized in Part 2, Chapter 22?

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

(see the answer key)

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