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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. Where does H.H. find his pocket diary after Charlotte has taken it from his locked table in Part 1, Chapter 22?
(a) On the couch.
(b) On the windowsill.
(c) On the kitchen table.
(d) Under Charlotte’s pillow.

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?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Indiana.
(c) Florida.
(d) Mississippi.

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

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

5. Where does H.H. describe seeing a “boulder, with a plaque, in memory of the author of “Trees” in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Poplar Cove, North Carolina.
(b) Pine Point, Maine.
(c) Birch Knoll, New York.
(d) Maple Hill, Pennsylvania.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the “fadedly feminine” English professor that lives with Miss Lester, according to the narrator in Part 2, Chapter 5?

2. 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?

3. On the Sunday when H.H., Charlotte Haze, and Lolita are to go on a picnic, what friend of Lolita’s cancels because she is sick in Part 1, Chapter 13?

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. Who does Miss Pratt say thinks Lolita is “myopic and should see a good ophthalmologist” in Part 2, Chapter 11?

(see the answer key)

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