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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 7-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator of the novel, Valeria later dies during childbirth in what year?
(a) 1945
(b) 1936
(c) 1942
(d) 1939

2. What had H.H. first planned to take a degree in before he switched to English literature?
(a) Geology.
(b) Biology.
(c) Engineering.
(d) Psychiatry.

3. What is the full name of H.H. in the novel?
(a) Humbert Humbert.
(b) Henry Handson.
(c) Howard Helgeson.
(d) Harold Haroldson.

4. Where does the narrator say his father owned a luxurious hotel in Part 1, Chapter 2?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Ramsdale.
(c) Beardsley.
(d) The Riviera.

5. What was Annabel’s last name, according to the narrator in Part 1, Chapter 3?
(a) Holmes.
(b) Leigh.
(c) Honeck.
(d) Cormorant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator say he loved “a certain initial girl-child” prior to Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 1?

2. The narrator of the novel says that he was born in what year in Part 1, Chapter 2?

3. What does the narrator say Lolita’s name was “on the dotted line” in Part 1, Chapter 1?

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

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

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