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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) Russians.
(b) Mexicans.
(c) Egyptians.
(d) Sicilians.

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

3. 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 A.
(d) Camp Q.

4. When Lolita becomes ill in Part 2, Chapter 22, H.H. says he immediately thinks of what, “as any American parent would”?
(a) Tetanus.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Poliomyelitis.
(d) Dysentery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Charlotte Haze’s neighbor across the street who is described as an invalid?

2. What author of Ulysses does the narrator mention in Part 2, Chapter 18?

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

4. What is the name of Mrs. Chatfield’s daughter that is going to a summer camp in Part 1, Chapter 14?

5. What is the name of the “brisk, briskly rouged, blue-eyed widow who ran the motor court” in Part 2, Chapter 22?

(see the answer key)

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