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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 character Vivian Darkbloom described in Part 2, Chapter 18 is an anagram for whose name?
(a) Charlie Holmes'.
(b) Dr. Ilse Tristramson’s.
(c) John Farlow's.
(d) John Galsworthy’s.

2. To what doctor does H.H. take Lolita when she becomes ill in Part 2, Chapter 22?
(a) Dr. Quilty.
(b) Dr. Blue.
(c) Dr. Byron.
(d) Dr. Tristramson.

3. In what small town with a population of 1001 do Lolita and H.H. have breakfast in Part 2, Chapter 18?
(a) Lepingville.
(b) Independence.
(c) Soda.
(d) Elphinstone.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On the Sunday when H.H., Charlotte Haze, and Lolita are to go on a picnic, what friend of Lolita’s cancels because she is sick in Part 1, Chapter 13?

2. What is the name of Charlotte Haze’s late husband and Lolita’s father in the novel?

3. 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?

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

5. Among whom does the narrator claim in Part 2, Chapter 1 “sexual relations between a father and his daughter are accepted as a matter of course”?

(see the answer key)

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