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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. 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) 1912
(b) 1931
(c) 1924
(d) 1919

2. Valeria tells H.H. that she has another man in her life who is an ex-colonel from where?
(a) Italy.
(b) Germany.
(c) Russia.
(d) Spain.

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

4. The narrator describes the “Time” in his scenario with Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 13 as being in what month?
(a) November.
(b) June.
(c) April.
(d) September.

5. In describing his feelings for Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 14, the narrator says, “The elation with which the vision of new delights filled me was not horrible but” what?
(a) “Inspiring.”
(b) “Amusing.”
(c) “Sickening.”
(d) “Pathetic.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of art does Valeria produce?

2. What does Lolita carry in her hands when H.H. encounters her on Sunday morning in Part 1, Chapter 13?

3. Lolita tells H.H. in Part 1, Chapter 11 that Ginny McCoo nearly died of what?

4. What did Annabel die from?

5. Lolita shows H.H. at picture from a magazine in Part 1, Chapter 13. In the picture, a surrealist painter is relaxing on a beach near a plaster replica of what work of art?

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