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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 11-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of art does Valeria produce?
(a) Classical sculpture.
(b) Art deco furniture.
(c) Realist paintings.
(d) Cubist paintings.

2. Because the picnic is postponed, Lolita refuses to go where with her mother in Part 1, Chapter 13?
(a) To church.
(b) To the shoe store.
(c) To the grocery store.
(d) To the hospital.

3. 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) Betty Grable.
(b) Marlene Dietrich.
(c) Marilyn Monroe.
(d) Katharine Hepburn.

4. Of what act does the narrator say he deplores “as lending itself to a dreadful pun, the revenge that the Gods of Semantics take against tight-zippered Philistines” in Part 2, Chapter 1?
(a) The Tate Act.
(b) The Mann Act.
(c) The Doll Act.
(d) The Robinson Act.

5. H.H. tells Lolita in Part 2, Chapter 15 that she should watch her diet, telling her “The tour of your thigh, you know, should not exceed” what?
(a) “Fourteen and one quarter inches.”
(b) “Seventeen and a half inches.”
(c) “Nineteen inches.”
(d) “Fifteen and three quarter inches.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What girl does Lolita say “instructed her in various manipulations” at camp in Part 1, Chapter 32?

2. The narrator states in Part 2, Chapter 1 that after zig-zagging across the country with Lolita from August 1947 to August 1948, they eventually petered out and settled in what college town?

3. What does H.H. buy for Lolita for her fifteenth birthday in Part 2, Chapter 12?

4. 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?

5. In what year did H.H.’s father send him to a lycée in Lyon?

(see the answer key)

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