1. 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?
(a) Rosaline Honeck.
(b) Eva Rosin.
(c) Mary Rose Hamilton.
(d) Elizabeth Talbot.

2. Where does H.H. say Valeria moved with her lover and took part in experiments by an American ethnologist?
(a) California.
(b) Arizona.
(c) Montana.
(d) Colorado.

3. The narrator of the novel says that he was born in what year in Part 1, Chapter 2?
(a) 1875
(b) 1892
(c) 1910
(d) 1903

4. In what year does Lolita turn 12 in Part 1, Chapter 19?
(a) 1943
(b) 1947
(c) 1954
(d) 1952

5. Where does H.H. go on a twenty-month expedition as a “recorder of psychic reactions”?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Canada.
(c) Ecuador.
(d) Kenya.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Valeria tells H.H. that she has another man in her life who is an ex-colonel from where?

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

4. Who has rented H.H. and Lolita a house in Part 2, Chapter 3?

5. What is the name of the dentist that Mrs. Haze uses that is also her neighbor in Part 1, Chapter 14?

(see the answer key)

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