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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. What does H.H. tell Lolita the blue pills are that he pretends to take in Part 1, Chapter 27?
(a) Vitamin D.
(b) Vitamin K.
(c) Vitamin A.
(d) Vitamin X.

2. 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) John Galsworthy.
(b) Vladimir Nabokov.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Richard Schiller.

3. The narrator says of Lolita’s friend Mona in Part 2, Chapter 9 that she “was burdened with” an I.Q. of what?
(a) 150
(b) 89
(c) 62
(d) 125

4. What does Lolita carry in her hands when H.H. encounters her on Sunday morning in Part 1, Chapter 13?
(a) An apple.
(b) A banana.
(c) A coconut.
(d) An orange.

5. With whom did Lolita have her first heterosexual experience?
(a) John Farlow.
(b) Gustove Trapp.
(c) John Galsworthy.
(d) Charlie Holmes.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what motel office does H.H. discover Lolita’s kidnapper has written his entry as “Dr. Gratiano Forbeson, Mirandola, NY” in Part 2, Chapter 23?

2. What town is described in Part 2, Chapter 16 as being “only thirty miles north from [Lolita’s] home town”?

3. Charlotte Haze is described by the narrator in Part 1, Chapter 10 as having “quite simple but not unattractive features of a type that may be defined as a weak solution of” whom?

4. In what year does Lolita turn 12 in Part 1, Chapter 19?

5. In describing his feelings for Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 14, the narrator says, “The elation with which the vision of new delights filled me was not horrible but” what?

(see the answer key)

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