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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 23-29.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The narrator states in Part 2, Chapter 20, “By permitting Lolita to study acting I had, fond fool, suffered her to” what?
(a) “Develop a fondness for drama.”
(b) “Hide her feelings.”
(c) “Live a fantasy.”
(d) “Cultivate deceit.”
2. The narrator claims in Part 1, Chapter 11 that the “median age of pubescence for girls has been found to be thirteen years and nine months in New York and” what city?
(a) “Chicago.”
(b) “San Francisco.”
(c) “Detroit.”
(d) “Miami.”
3. The narrator states in Part 2, Chapter 2, “I dimly evoke that Magnolia Garden in a southern state which cost me four bucks and which, according to the ad in the book, you must visit for three reasons.” The first of these reasons is because what “stone-dead writer of sorts” acclaimed it as the world’s fairest garden?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Richard Schiller.
(c) Vladimir Nabokov.
(d) John Galsworthy.
4. What does H.H. describe Lolita’s weekly allowance at the end of “the Beardsley era” in Part 2, Chapter 7?
(a) $1.75
(b) $1.05
(c) $2.25
(d) $3.00
5. Where does the narrator say Mrs. Phalli’s sister taught in Part 1, Chapter 20?
(a) St. Algebra.
(b) St. Joseph's.
(c) St. Mark's.
(d) St. Edwards.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Part 1, Chapter 29, H.H. says that “by six she was wide awake” and by what time were they “technically lovers”?
2. What does H.H. say he detests “as being a primitive and putrid form, historically speaking; a form that smacks of stone-age rites and communal nonsense despite those individual injections of genius” in Part 2, Chapter 13?
3. The character Vivian Darkbloom described in Part 2, Chapter 18 is an anagram for whose name?
4. H.H. says of Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 15 that she would be thirteen on what date?
5. How tall does H.H. describe his “little concubine” in Part 2, Chapter 15?
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