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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 name of Mrs. Chatfield’s daughter that is going to a summer camp in Part 1, Chapter 14?
(a) Rita.
(b) Fay.
(c) Phyllis.
(d) Clare.

2. 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?
(a) “Contradiction.”
(b) “Fangs.”
(c) “Thorns.”
(d) “Lies.”

3. According to the narrator of the novel, Valeria later dies during childbirth in what year?
(a) 1942
(b) 1945
(c) 1939
(d) 1936

4. 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) 1919
(d) 1924

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes Lolita as standing how tall “in one sock” in Part 1, Chapter 1?

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

3. On the Sunday when H.H., Charlotte Haze, and Lolita are to go on a picnic, what friend of Lolita’s cancels because she is sick in Part 1, Chapter 13?

4. How old is Charlotte Haze described as being in Part 1, Chapter 10?

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

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