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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 the narrator say he loved “a certain initial girl-child” prior to Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) “Behind a famous museum.”
(b) “On a magical mountaintop.”
(c) “A princedom by the sea.”
(d) “In a stagnant swamp.”

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

3. The narrator describes a “man having a lavish epileptic fit on the ground” where, in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
(b) Boulder Rapids State Park.
(c) Russian Gulch State Park.
(d) Boulder Canyon State Park.

4. Who reports that Lolita’s “tennis form is excellent to superb” in Part 2, Chapter 11?
(a) Miss Cormorant.
(b) Miss Gold.
(c) Miss Molar.
(d) Miss Redcock.

5. Lolita tells H.H. in Part 1, Chapter 11 that Ginny McCoo nearly died of what?
(a) Leishmaniasis.
(b) Filariasis.
(c) Polio.
(d) Cholera.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years her senior does Charlotte Haze say her late husband was in Part 1, Chapter 16?

2. How old is Charlotte Haze described as being in Part 1, Chapter 10?

3. Where does the narrator say Mrs. Phalli’s sister taught in Part 1, Chapter 20?

4. Where does H.H. describe seeing a “boulder, with a plaque, in memory of the author of “Trees” in Part 2, Chapter 2?

5. Where does H.H. go on a twenty-month expedition as a “recorder of psychic reactions”?

(see the answer key)

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