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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 24-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does H.H. hear that the McCoos have a room to rent in Part 1, Chapter 10?
(a) Kasbeam.
(b) Ramsdale.
(c) Briceland.
(d) Independent.

2. Why is H.H. unable to stay at the McCoos’ home in Part 1, Chapter 10?
(a) Their house burned down.
(b) Their house has been flooded.
(c) Mr. McCoo has been arrested.
(d) H.H.'s mother forbids it.

3. The narrator describes Lolita as standing how tall “in one sock” in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) 5’3”
(b) 4'10''
(c) 4'6''
(d) 5'1''

4. Charlotte Haze is described by the narrator in Part 1, Chapter 10 as having “quite simple but not unattractive features of a type that may be defined as a weak solution of” whom?
(a) Marlene Dietrich.
(b) Marilyn Monroe.
(c) Katharine Hepburn.
(d) Betty Grable.

5. 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?
(a) “A virgin.”
(b) “A child.”
(c) “An innocent.”
(d) “A minor.”

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Lolita’s younger brother when he died?

2. Who telephones H.H. to tell him that Charlotte has been killed in Part 1, Chapter 22?

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

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

5. Where has Charlotte “mapped out” for Lolita to attend college in Part 1, Chapter 20?

(see the answer key)

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