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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 18-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does H.H. say Valeria moved with her lover and took part in experiments by an American ethnologist?
(a) Arizona.
(b) Montana.
(c) California.
(d) Colorado.

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

3. What hotel does Charlotte suggests to H.H. that they go to in Part 1, Chapter 21?
(a) Crater Lake Lodge.
(b) The Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac.
(c) The Ahwahnee.
(d) Enchanted Hunters.

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) 1924
(b) 1912
(c) 1919
(d) 1931

5. Of his wife Charlotte, H.H. says in Part 1, Chapter 18, “the only couple with whom she had relations of real cordiality, devoid of any arriõre-pensèe or practical foresight, were” with what couple that had just returned from Chile?
(a) The Galsworthys.
(b) The Farlows.
(c) The Chapmans.
(d) The Hamiltons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is H.H. unable to stay at the McCoos’ home in Part 1, Chapter 10?

2. Where does H.H. go on a twenty-month expedition as a “recorder of psychic reactions”?

3. In what year does Lolita turn 12 in Part 1, Chapter 19?

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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