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

2. The narrator says in Part 1, Chapter 2 that his mother was an English girl and the daughter of what alpinist?
(a) Charlie Holmes.
(b) Gustave Trapp.
(c) Jerome Dunn.
(d) John Galsworthy.

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

4. What kind of art does Valeria produce?
(a) Art deco furniture.
(b) Cubist paintings.
(c) Realist paintings.
(d) Classical sculpture.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is H.H. unable to stay at the McCoos’ home in Part 1, Chapter 10?

2. The narrator describes a pocket diary with what golden year inscribed in its upper left-hand corner in Part 1, Chapter 11?

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

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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