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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. Lolita tells H.H. in Part 1, Chapter 11 that Ginny McCoo nearly died of what?
(a) Filariasis.
(b) Polio.
(c) Leishmaniasis.
(d) Cholera.

2. 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?
(a) Marlene Dietrich.
(b) Betty Grable.
(c) Katharine Hepburn.
(d) Marilyn Monroe.

3. H.H. tells Lolita that her mother is in a hospital near what town in Part 1, Chapter 27?
(a) Briceland.
(b) Lepingville.
(c) Beardsley.
(d) Elphinstone.

4. How many clues does H.H. collect as he tracks Lolita and her kidnapper in Part 2, Chapter 23?
(a) 20
(b) 33
(c) 12
(d) 51

5. H.H. says that on his cross-country adventure with Lolita from August 1947 to August 1948, they avoided Florida because who were there in Part 2, Chapter 1?
(a) John and Jean Farlow.
(b) Michael and Andrew Smith.
(c) Mark and Michelle Anderson.
(d) Lolita's grandparents.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The accident that killed Charlotte has only been reported in what newspaper, according to the narrator in Part 1, Chapter 25?

3. Valeria tells H.H. that she has another man in her life who is an ex-colonel from where?

4. 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?

5. What location is described as the “home of the Wild Bill Something Rodeo” in Part 2, Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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