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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 13-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years her senior does Charlotte Haze say her late husband was in Part 1, Chapter 16?
(a) 9
(b) 4
(c) 20
(d) 16

2. 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?
(a) 1931
(b) 1912
(c) 1924
(d) 1919

3. The narrator describes a pocket diary with what golden year inscribed in its upper left-hand corner in Part 1, Chapter 11?
(a) 1935
(b) 1938
(c) 1947
(d) 1941

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?
(a) Marilyn Monroe.
(b) Katharine Hepburn.
(c) Betty Grable.
(d) Marlene Dietrich.

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

2. What is the name of the camp that Charlotte Haze is sending Lolita to in Part 1, Chapter 15?

3. What kind of art does Valeria produce?

4. What name does the narrator give the “main character” in his described scenario with Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 13?

5. Where did Annabel die?

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