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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. The narrator describes Lolita as standing how tall “in one sock” in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) 4'10''
(b) 5'1''
(c) 4'6''
(d) 5’3”

2. 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?
(a) The Moai.
(b) Davi.
(c) The Venus de Milo.
(d) The Great Sphinx.

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

4. What was the maiden name of Annabel’s mother?
(a) Vanessa van Ness.
(b) Mary Rose Hamilton.
(c) Ann Lore.
(d) Mona Dahl.

5. In what year did H.H.’s father send him to a lycée in Lyon?
(a) 1907
(b) 1937
(c) 1923
(d) 1914

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does H.H. hear that the McCoos have a room to rent in Part 1, Chapter 10?

2. Where does the narrator say he loved “a certain initial girl-child” prior to Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 1?

3. What kind of art does Valeria produce?

4. H.H. says of Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 15 that she would be thirteen on what date?

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

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