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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 states in Part 1, Chapter 1, “You can always count on a murderer for” what?
(a) “A silent, wicked lie.”
(b) “A turn of matching turns.”
(c) “A solid alibi.”
(d) “A fancy prose style.”

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

3. What did Annabel die from?
(a) Lyme disease.
(b) Typhus.
(c) Giardiasis.
(d) Amebiasis.

4. 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 Chapmans.
(b) The Galsworthys.
(c) The Farlows.
(d) The Hamiltons.

5. The narrator of the novel says that he was born in what year in Part 1, Chapter 2?
(a) 1875
(b) 1910
(c) 1892
(d) 1903

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the camp that Charlotte Haze is sending Lolita to in Part 1, Chapter 15?

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

3. How many days does H.H. say he and Charlotte cohabitated in Part 1, Chapter 18?

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

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

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