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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. How far does H.H. say he drove to buy books for Lolita while she was hospitalized in Part 2, Chapter 22?
(a) 45 miles.
(b) 12 miles.
(c) 25 miles.
(d) 60 miles.

2. Of Lolita’s tennis abilities, the narrator says in Part 2, Chapter 20 that one of the pearls of her game “was a short half-volley that Ned Litam had taught her” where?
(a) “In California.”
(b) “In Washington.”
(c) “In Illinois.”
(d) “In Texas.”

3. Because the picnic is postponed, Lolita refuses to go where with her mother in Part 1, Chapter 13?
(a) To church.
(b) To the hospital.
(c) To the grocery store.
(d) To the shoe store.

4. H.H. describes going with Lolita to see “granite obelisk commemorating the Battle of” what, in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) “Blue Licks.”
(b) “Wounded Knee.”
(c) “Goose Green.”
(d) “Bull Run.”

5. With whom had Lolita spent a rainy summer in a dilapidated Appalachian farmhouse, according to the narrator in Part 2, Chapter 1?
(a) Miss Redcock.
(b) Miss Cormorant.
(c) Miss Phalen.
(d) Miss Gold.

Short Answer 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”?

2. Where does H.H. describe seeing a “boulder, with a plaque, in memory of the author of “Trees” in Part 2, Chapter 2?

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?

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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