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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. The narrator states in Part 1, Chapter 1, “You can always count on a murderer for” what?
(a) “A silent, wicked lie.”
(b) “A solid alibi.”
(c) “A turn of matching turns.”
(d) “A fancy prose style.”

2. The narrator describes Lolita as standing how tall “in one sock” in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) 5’3”
(b) 5'1''
(c) 4'6''
(d) 4'10''

3. Where does the narrator say he loved “a certain initial girl-child” prior to Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) “On a magical mountaintop.”
(b) “A princedom by the sea.”
(c) “Behind a famous museum.”
(d) “In a stagnant swamp.”

4. Where does Mrs. Haze live in Part 1, Chapter 10?
(a) 872 Maple Boulevard.
(b) 342 Lawn Street.
(c) 475 Oak Lane.
(d) 173 Manzanita Way.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the maiden name of Annabel’s mother?

2. How old is Charlotte Haze described as being in Part 1, Chapter 10?

3. What kind of art does Valeria produce?

4. Where does H.H. go on a twenty-month expedition as a “recorder of psychic reactions”?

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

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