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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 claims in Part 1, Chapter 11 that the “median age of pubescence for girls has been found to be thirteen years and nine months in New York and” what city?
(a) “Miami.”
(b) “Chicago.”
(c) “Detroit.”
(d) “San Francisco.”

2. What kind of art does Valeria produce?
(a) Art deco furniture.
(b) Cubist paintings.
(c) Classical sculpture.
(d) Realist paintings.

3. 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) Davi.
(b) The Moai.
(c) The Great Sphinx.
(d) The Venus de Milo.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator say his father owned a luxurious hotel in Part 1, Chapter 2?

2. What is the name of Charlotte Haze’s neighbor across the street who is described as an invalid?

3. What is the full name of H.H. in the novel?

4. According to the narrator of the novel, Valeria later dies during childbirth in what year?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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