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

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

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

4. What name does the narrator give the “main character” in his described scenario with Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 13?
(a) “Humbert the Hero.”
(b) “Humbert the Horrible.”
(c) “Humbert the Hasty.”
(d) “Humbert the Hummer.”

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) Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
(c) Boulder Rapids State Park.
(d) Boulder Canyon State Park.

Short Answer Questions

1. H.H. says he and Lolita were “somewhere between Snow and” what town when they got a flat in Part 2, Chapter 19?

2. Charlotte Haze says of her daughter in Part 1, Chapter 15 that she sees her as “a sturdy, healthy, but decidedly homely kid,” whereas Lolita sees herself as what?

3. 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”?

4. To what doctor does H.H. take Lolita when she becomes ill in Part 2, Chapter 22?

5. 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?

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