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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. 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”?
(a) Mexicans.
(b) Sicilians.
(c) Egyptians.
(d) Russians.

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

3. 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) Poliomyelitis.
(d) Malaria.

4. 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?
(a) The Tate Act.
(b) The Doll Act.
(c) The Mann Act.
(d) The Robinson Act.

5. What is the name of Charlotte Haze’s late husband and Lolita’s father in the novel?
(a) John Galsworthy.
(b) Richard Schiller.
(c) Gaston Godin.
(d) Harold E. Haze.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in Part 2, Chapter 18, “thought to myself how those fast little articles forget everything, everything, while we, old lovers, treasure every inch of their” what?

2. What does Lolita carry in her hands when H.H. encounters her on Sunday morning in Part 1, Chapter 13?

3. 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?

4. H.H. describes visiting Little Iceberg Lake somewhere in what state in Part 2, Chapter 2?

5. In what small town with a population of 1001 do Lolita and H.H. have breakfast in Part 2, Chapter 18?

(see the answer key)

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