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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. What name does the narrator give the “main character” in his described scenario with Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 13?
(a) “Humbert the Horrible.”
(b) “Humbert the Hasty.”
(c) “Humbert the Hero.”
(d) “Humbert the Hummer.”

2. How does H.H. remove a speck from Lolita’s eye in Part 1, Chapter 11?
(a) He licks it out.
(b) With a piece of tape.
(c) He blows on it.
(d) He pinches it with his fingers.

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

4. The narrator of the novel says that he was born in what year in Part 1, Chapter 2?
(a) 1892
(b) 1910
(c) 1903
(d) 1875

5. Because the picnic is postponed, Lolita refuses to go where with her mother in Part 1, Chapter 13?
(a) To the shoe store.
(b) To the grocery store.
(c) To the hospital.
(d) To church.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator asserts in Part 1, Chapter 5 that “Dante fell madly in love with Beatrice when she was” how old?

3. On the Sunday when H.H., Charlotte Haze, and Lolita are to go on a picnic, what friend of Lolita’s cancels because she is sick in Part 1, Chapter 13?

4. 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?

5. Of his experience with Lolita earlier in the morning, the narrator says in Part 1, Chapter 14, “I felt proud of myself. I had stolen the honey of a spasm without impairing the morals of” what?

(see the answer key)

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