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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. To whom does Miss Pratt say Lolita is “defiant” in Part 2, Chapter 11?
(a) Miss Redcock.
(b) Miss Molar.
(c) Miss Cormorant.
(d) Miss Gold.

2. What name does the narrator give the “main character” in his described scenario with Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 13?
(a) “Humbert the Hasty.”
(b) “Humbert the Hummer.”
(c) “Humbert the Horrible.”
(d) “Humbert the Hero.”

3. H.H. tells Lolita in Part 2, Chapter 1 that if she should go to the authorities, he will be arrested but she will become the ward of whom?
(a) The Department of Public Welfare.
(b) The Department of Orphaned Children.
(c) The Department of Child Health.
(d) The Department of the Treasury.

4. What location is described as the “home of the Wild Bill Something Rodeo” in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Cody, Wyoming.
(b) Durango, Colorado.
(c) Abilene, Kansas.
(d) Billings, Montana.

5. Who telephones H.H. to tell him that Charlotte has been killed in Part 1, Chapter 22?
(a) Leslie Tomson.
(b) Rosaline Honeck.
(c) Shirley Holmes.
(d) Avis Chapson.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Part 2, Chapter 2, “I dimly evoke that Magnolia Garden in a southern state which cost me four bucks and which, according to the ad in the book, you must visit for three reasons.” The first of these reasons is because what “stone-dead writer of sorts” acclaimed it as the world’s fairest garden?

2. Of his new wife Charlotte, the narrator states in Part 1, Chapter 18, “I discovered that although she could not control her heart or her cries, she was a woman of” what?

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

4. To whom does Miss Pratt say Lolita is “impossibly rude” in Part 2, Chapter 11?

5. Who reports that Lolita’s “tennis form is excellent to superb” in Part 2, Chapter 11?

(see the answer key)

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