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

2. What is the name of Charlotte Haze’s late husband and Lolita’s father in the novel?
(a) Gaston Godin.
(b) Richard Schiller.
(c) Harold E. Haze.
(d) John Galsworthy.

3. In what year does H.H. marry Valeria?
(a) 1935
(b) 1927
(c) 1932
(d) 1944

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

5. The narrator asserts in Part 1, Chapter 5 that “Dante fell madly in love with Beatrice when she was” how old?
(a) 9
(b) 6
(c) 7
(d) 4

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does H.H. say Valeria moved with her lover and took part in experiments by an American ethnologist?

2. H.H. hears that Mr. and Mrs. McCoo have a daughter how old in Part 1, Chapter 10?

3. The narrator says in Part 1, Chapter 2 that his mother was an English girl and the daughter of what alpinist?

4. 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?

5. The narrator states in Part 1, Chapter 1, “You can always count on a murderer for” what?

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