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

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

3. Valeria tells H.H. that she has another man in her life who is an ex-colonel from where?
(a) Italy.
(b) Spain.
(c) Russia.
(d) Germany.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Lolita tells H.H. in Part 1, Chapter 11 that Ginny McCoo nearly died of what?

4. In describing his feelings for Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 14, the narrator says, “The elation with which the vision of new delights filled me was not horrible but” what?

5. What does Lolita carry in her hands when H.H. encounters her on Sunday morning in Part 1, Chapter 13?

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