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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 is the full name of H.H. in the novel?
(a) Harold Haroldson.
(b) Henry Handson.
(c) Humbert Humbert.
(d) Howard Helgeson.

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

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

4. What does Lolita carry in her hands when H.H. encounters her on Sunday morning in Part 1, Chapter 13?
(a) A banana.
(b) A coconut.
(c) An apple.
(d) An orange.

5. The narrator states in Part 1, Chapter 1, “You can always count on a murderer for” what?
(a) “A turn of matching turns.”
(b) “A fancy prose style.”
(c) “A silent, wicked lie.”
(d) “A solid alibi.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of art does Valeria produce?

2. Where did Annabel die?

3. Because the picnic is postponed, Lolita refuses to go where with her mother in Part 1, Chapter 13?

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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