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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. How old was H.H. when his mother died?
(a) 5
(b) 11
(c) 8
(d) 3

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

3. H.H. hears that Mr. and Mrs. McCoo have a daughter how old in Part 1, Chapter 10?
(a) 7
(b) 16
(c) 10
(d) 12

4. In what year does H.H. marry Valeria?
(a) 1927
(b) 1932
(c) 1944
(d) 1935

5. In the final line of Part 1, Chapter 1, the narrator addresses the “ladies and gentlemen of the jury,” saying “Look at this tangle of” what?
(a) “Thorns.”
(b) “Lies.”
(c) “Fangs.”
(d) “Contradiction.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of H.H.’s aunt who served as a kind of governess and housekeeper to him?

3. What kind of art does Valeria produce?

4. 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?

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?

(see the answer key)

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