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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. Of his wife Charlotte, H.H. says in Part 1, Chapter 18, “the only couple with whom she had relations of real cordiality, devoid of any arriõre-pensèe or practical foresight, were” with what couple that had just returned from Chile?
(a) The Farlows.
(b) The Hamiltons.
(c) The Galsworthys.
(d) The Chapmans.

2. H.H. describes visiting Little Iceberg Lake somewhere in what state in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Utah.
(b) Wyoming.
(c) Colorado.
(d) California.

3. According to the narrator of the novel, Valeria later dies during childbirth in what year?
(a) 1945
(b) 1936
(c) 1942
(d) 1939

4. In Part 1, Chapter 29, H.H. says that “by six she was wide awake” and by what time were they “technically lovers”?
(a) 7:30
(b) 6:15
(c) 8:00
(d) 7:45

5. 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?
(a) “The opera.”
(b) “Cubist painting.”
(c) “The theatre.”
(d) “French literature.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does H.H. say Valeria moved with her lover and took part in experiments by an American ethnologist?

2. The narrator states in Part 2, Chapter 20, “By permitting Lolita to study acting I had, fond fool, suffered her to” what?

3. How much per day does Lolita’s private hospital room cost, according to the narrator in Part 2, Chapter 22?

4. At the end of Part 1, Chapter 22, the narrator states, “Remarkable how difficult it is to conceal things--especially when one's wife keeps” what?

5. H.H. describes visiting the “starting point of the Old Oregon Trail” where in Part 2, Chapter 2?

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