1. Who is the author of the play The Enchanted Hunters in the novel?
(a) Mona Dahl.
(b) Vivian Darkbloom.
(c) Clare Quilty.
(d) Harold E. Haze.

2. 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 Doll Act.
(b) The Robinson Act.
(c) The Mann Act.
(d) The Tate Act.

3. What does H.H. say he detests “as being a primitive and putrid form, historically speaking; a form that smacks of stone-age rites and communal nonsense despite those individual injections of genius” in Part 2, Chapter 13?
(a) “The opera.”
(b) “Cubist painting.”
(c) “The theatre.”
(d) “French literature.”

4. When H.H. and Lolita leave for a road trip in Part 2, Chapter 15, H.H. tells the Beardsley School that he is consulting on a film in Hollywood dealing with what?
(a) Existentialism.
(b) Classicism.
(c) Surrealism.
(d) Post-modernism.

5. How does H.H. remove a speck from Lolita’s eye in Part 1, Chapter 11?
(a) He pinches it with his fingers.
(b) He licks it out.
(c) He blows on it.
(d) With a piece of tape.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How old does H.H. refer to “his daughter” at the hotel in Part 1, Chapter 27?

3. What was Annabel’s last name, according to the narrator in Part 1, Chapter 3?

4. What is the name of the cleaning woman who H.H. “inherited with the vacuum cleaner from the previous tenants” in Part 2, Chapter 5?

5. In what year does Lolita turn 12 in Part 1, Chapter 19?

(see the answer key)

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