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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. What is the name of the camp that Charlotte Haze is sending Lolita to in Part 1, Chapter 15?
(a) Camp J.
(b) Camp Q.
(c) Camp Q.
(d) Camp A.

2. 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 Robinson Act.
(b) The Mann Act.
(c) The Doll Act.
(d) The Tate Act.

3. The person who checked Lolita out of the hospital in Part 2, Chapter 22 is said to have brought her what?
(a) An orange kitten.
(b) A yellow canary.
(c) A white rabbit.
(d) A cocker spaniel puppy.

4. H.H. says that on his cross-country adventure with Lolita from August 1947 to August 1948, they avoided Florida because who were there in Part 2, Chapter 1?
(a) Lolita's grandparents.
(b) Mark and Michelle Anderson.
(c) John and Jean Farlow.
(d) Michael and Andrew Smith.

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

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

3. Of his experience with Lolita earlier in the morning, the narrator says in Part 1, Chapter 14, “I felt proud of myself. I had stolen the honey of a spasm without impairing the morals of” what?

4. 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?

5. What location does the narrator describe in Part 2, Chapter 2, as somber with “its colored hot springs, baby geysers, rainbows of bubbling mud--symbols of my passion”?

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