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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. Who is Bill Mead’s companion on the tennis courts in Part 2, Chapter 20?
(a) Eva Rosen.
(b) Fay Page.
(c) Mary Rose Hamilton.
(d) Leslie Tomson.

2. 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?
(a) John Galsworthy.
(b) Richard Schiller.
(c) Vladimir Nabokov.
(d) James Joyce.

3. What does H.H. describe Lolita’s weight as being when he is purchasing new clothes for her in Part 1, Chapter 25?
(a) 55 pounds.
(b) 78 pounds.
(c) 71 pounds.
(d) 60 pounds.

4. What location does the narrator describe in Part 2, Chapter 2, as somber with “its colored hot springs, baby geysers, rainbows of bubbling mud--symbols of my passion”?
(a) Crater Lake Park.
(b) Yosemite Park.
(c) Yellowstone Park.
(d) Glacier Park.

5. The narrator claims in Part 1, Chapter 11 that the “median age of pubescence for girls has been found to be thirteen years and nine months in New York and” what city?
(a) “Detroit.”
(b) “San Francisco.”
(c) “Miami.”
(d) “Chicago.”

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What “ghost town in New Mexico, where bad man Russian Bill was colorfully hanged seventy years ago” does H.H. describe visiting with Lolita in Part 2, Chapter 2?

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

4. What is the name of the dentist that Mrs. Haze uses that is also her neighbor in Part 1, Chapter 14?

5. What couple in H.H. and Charlotte’s neighborhood has a “hysterical setter” that frequently chases cars?

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