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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 18-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What couple in H.H. and Charlotte’s neighborhood has a “hysterical setter” that frequently chases cars?
(a) Mr. and Mrs. Schiller.
(b) Mr. and Mrs. Fabian.
(c) Mr. and Mrs. Darkbloom.
(d) Mr. and Mrs. Junk.

2. The narrator states in Part 2, Chapter 1 that after zig-zagging across the country with Lolita from August 1947 to August 1948, they eventually petered out and settled in what college town?
(a) Beardsley.
(b) Briceland.
(c) Ramsdale.
(d) Abilene.

3. Lolita tells H.H. in Part 1, Chapter 27 that when her mother discovers they slept in one room, “she’ll divorce you and” do what to Lolita?
(a) Scream at her.
(b) Strangle her.
(c) Slap her.
(d) Disown her.

4. What author of Ulysses does the narrator mention in Part 2, Chapter 18?
(a) Jerome Dunn.
(b) Charlie Holmes.
(c) Vladimir Nabokov.
(d) James Joyce.

5. H.H. says it was June of what year when a “stray canary had fluttered into [Annabel’s] house and mine, in two widely separated countries” in Part 1, Chapter 4?
(a) 1931
(b) 1912
(c) 1924
(d) 1919

Short Answer Questions

1. Charlotte tells H.H. in Part 1, Chapter 21 that they are going where in the fall?

2. Who telephones H.H. to tell him that Charlotte has been killed in Part 1, Chapter 22?

3. In describing his feelings for Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 14, the narrator says, “The elation with which the vision of new delights filled me was not horrible but” what?

4. The headmistress at the girl’s school where Lolita is enrolled in Part 2, Chapter 4 states that they “are more interested in communication than in” what?

5. The hotel called Enchanted Hunters is located in what town, according to the narrator in Part 1, Chapter 25?

(see the answer key)

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