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

2. What town is described in Part 2, Chapter 16 as being “only thirty miles north from [Lolita’s] home town”?
(a) Champion.
(b) Ramsdale.
(c) Elphinstone.
(d) Kasbeam.

3. Among whom does the narrator claim in Part 2, Chapter 1 “sexual relations between a father and his daughter are accepted as a matter of course”?
(a) Egyptians.
(b) Russians.
(c) Mexicans.
(d) Sicilians.

4. H.H. learns at the hotel that because of a religious convention and flower show, they were unable to hold his room past what time in Part 1, Chapter 27?
(a) 4 p.m.
(b) 3 p.m.
(c) 12 p.m.
(d) 6 p.m.

5. The narrator states in Part 1, Chapter 25, “Oh, Lolita, you are my girl, as” who “was Poe’s”?
(a) “Venus.”
(b) “Vee.”
(c) “Annabel Lee.”
(d) “Charlotte.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Of his new wife Charlotte, the narrator states in Part 1, Chapter 18, “I discovered that although she could not control her heart or her cries, she was a woman of” what?

2. H.H. describes inspecting “a collection of European hotel picture post cards in a museum devoted to hobbies” at a resort where, in Part 2, Chapter 2?

3. The accident that killed Charlotte has only been reported in what newspaper, according to the narrator in Part 1, Chapter 25?

4. In Part 1, Chapter 29, H.H. says that “by six she was wide awake” and by what time were they “technically lovers”?

5. What had H.H. first planned to take a degree in before he switched to English literature?

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