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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 the narrator say he loved “a certain initial girl-child” prior to Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) “A princedom by the sea.”
(b) “Behind a famous museum.”
(c) “On a magical mountaintop.”
(d) “In a stagnant swamp.”

2. What had H.H. first planned to take a degree in before he switched to English literature?
(a) Geology.
(b) Biology.
(c) Engineering.
(d) Psychiatry.

3. Where does Mrs. Haze live in Part 1, Chapter 10?
(a) 475 Oak Lane.
(b) 342 Lawn Street.
(c) 872 Maple Boulevard.
(d) 173 Manzanita Way.

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

5. Who is described by the narrator in Part 1, Chapter 18 as “a rosy honey in a Girl Scout uniform, beret of green worsted, belt of green webbing, charming shoulder-long curls”?
(a) Vanessa van Ness.
(b) Rosaline Honeck.
(c) Mary Rose Hamilton.
(d) Linda Hall.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does H.H. marry Valeria?

2. Who comes down to the lake to paint as H.H. and Charlotte are laying in the “private beach” area in Part 1, Chapter 20?

3. Charlotte tells H.H. in Part 1, Chapter 21 that they are going where in the fall?

4. Of his experience with Lolita earlier in the morning, the narrator says in Part 1, Chapter 14, “I felt proud of myself. I had stolen the honey of a spasm without impairing the morals of” what?

5. Valeria tells H.H. that she has another man in her life who is an ex-colonel from where?

(see the answer key)

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