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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 shows H.H. at picture from a magazine in Part 1, Chapter 13. In the picture, a surrealist painter is relaxing on a beach near a plaster replica of what work of art?
(a) The Venus de Milo.
(b) Davi.
(c) The Great Sphinx.
(d) The Moai.

2. Lolita tells H.H. in Part 1, Chapter 27 that when her mother discovers they slept in one room, “she’ll divorce you and” do what to Lolita?
(a) Strangle her.
(b) Slap her.
(c) Disown her.
(d) Scream at her.

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

4. To what doctor does H.H. take Lolita when she becomes ill in Part 2, Chapter 22?
(a) Dr. Blue.
(b) Dr. Byron.
(c) Dr. Quilty.
(d) Dr. Tristramson.

5. 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) “Detroit.”
(b) “Miami.”
(c) “Chicago.”
(d) “San Francisco.”

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Miss Pratt say Lolita is “impossibly rude” in Part 2, Chapter 11?

2. What are the “four D’s” that are stressed at the girl’s school where Lolita begins studying in Part 2, Chapter 4?

3. 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?

4. What is the full name of H.H. in the novel?

5. H.H. hears that Mr. and Mrs. McCoo have a daughter how old in Part 1, Chapter 10?

(see the answer key)

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