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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 18-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does H.H. remove a speck from Lolita’s eye in Part 1, Chapter 11?
(a) With a piece of tape.
(b) He licks it out.
(c) He pinches it with his fingers.
(d) He blows on it.

2. In the final line of Part 1, Chapter 1, the narrator addresses the “ladies and gentlemen of the jury,” saying “Look at this tangle of” what?
(a) “Lies.”
(b) “Contradiction.”
(c) “Thorns.”
(d) “Fangs.”

3. Where does H.H. go on a twenty-month expedition as a “recorder of psychic reactions”?
(a) Ecuador.
(b) Canada.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Kenya.

4. Charlotte tells H.H. in Part 1, Chapter 18 that if he “did not believe in Our Christian God, she would” do what?
(a) “Pray for him.”
(b) “Commit suicide.”
(c) “Divorce him.”
(d) “Tell the preacher.”

5. Of his wife Charlotte, H.H. says in Part 1, Chapter 18, “the only couple with whom she had relations of real cordiality, devoid of any arriõre-pensèe or practical foresight, were” with what couple that had just returned from Chile?
(a) The Chapmans.
(b) The Farlows.
(c) The Galsworthys.
(d) The Hamiltons.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Lolita’s younger brother when he died?

2. What was the name of H.H.’s aunt who served as a kind of governess and housekeeper to him?

3. Charlotte tells H.H. in Part 1, Chapter 21 that they are going where in the fall?

4. Where does H.H. find his pocket diary after Charlotte has taken it from his locked table in Part 1, Chapter 22?

5. H.H. says it was June of what year when a “stray canary had fluttered into [Annabel’s] house and mine, in two widely separated countries” in Part 1, Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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