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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 is the name of the dentist that Mrs. Haze uses that is also her neighbor in Part 1, Chapter 14?
(a) Dr. Blue.
(b) Dr. Byron.
(c) Dr. Quilty.
(d) Dr. Tristramson.

2. How far does H.H. say he drove to buy books for Lolita while she was hospitalized in Part 2, Chapter 22?
(a) 60 miles.
(b) 25 miles.
(c) 12 miles.
(d) 45 miles.

3. The character Vivian Darkbloom described in Part 2, Chapter 18 is an anagram for whose name?
(a) Charlie Holmes'.
(b) Dr. Ilse Tristramson’s.
(c) John Galsworthy’s.
(d) John Farlow's.

4. Charlotte tells H.H. in Part 1, Chapter 18 that if he “did not believe in Our Christian God, she would” do what?
(a) “Tell the preacher.”
(b) “Commit suicide.”
(c) “Divorce him.”
(d) “Pray for him.”

5. H.H. describes going with Lolita to see “granite obelisk commemorating the Battle of” what, in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) “Goose Green.”
(b) “Wounded Knee.”
(c) “Blue Licks.”
(d) “Bull Run.”

Short Answer Questions

1. How old does H.H. refer to “his daughter” at the hotel in Part 1, Chapter 27?

2. The narrator of the novel says that he was born in what year in Part 1, Chapter 2?

3. Who is the author of the play The Enchanted Hunters in the novel?

4. In what year did H.H.’s father send him to a lycée in Lyon?

5. H.H. says that on his cross-country adventure with Lolita from August 1947 to August 1948, they avoided Florida because who were there in Part 2, Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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