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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. In what year does H.H. marry Valeria?
(a) 1944
(b) 1932
(c) 1927
(d) 1935

2. The narrator states in Part 1, Chapter 1, “You can always count on a murderer for” what?
(a) “A solid alibi.”
(b) “A turn of matching turns.”
(c) “A fancy prose style.”
(d) “A silent, wicked lie.”

3. What does H.H. buy for Lolita for her fifteenth birthday in Part 2, Chapter 12?
(a) A bicycle.
(b) A necklace.
(c) A coat.
(d) A watch.

4. 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) “Fifteen and three quarter inches.”
(b) “Nineteen inches.”
(c) “Seventeen and a half inches.”
(d) “Fourteen and one quarter inches.”

5. What month is it when Miss Pratt asks H.H. to come for a talk to discuss Lolita’s progress in school in Part 2, Chapter 11?
(a) July.
(b) October.
(c) December.
(d) May.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who examines Lolita when she catches “a bad chill” in Part 2, Chapter 12?

3. What hotel does Charlotte suggests to H.H. that they go to in Part 1, Chapter 21?

4. 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”?

5. How much does H.H. say his “little concubine” weighs now in Part 2, Chapter 15?

(see the answer key)

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