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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 30-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does H.H. remove a speck from Lolita’s eye in Part 1, Chapter 11?
(a) He blows on it.
(b) He pinches it with his fingers.
(c) He licks it out.
(d) With a piece of tape.

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

3. What was the name of H.H.’s aunt who served as a kind of governess and housekeeper to him?
(a) Clare.
(b) Linda.
(c) Sybil.
(d) Mona.

4. Of his poem written about Lolita, H.H. says in Part 2, Chapter 25, “By psychoanalyzing this poem, I notice it is really” what?
(a) “A Christian’s confession.”
(b) “A sick man’s salvation.”
(c) “A criminal’s confession.”
(d) “A maniac’s masterpiece.”

5. On the Sunday when H.H., Charlotte Haze, and Lolita are to go on a picnic, what friend of Lolita’s cancels because she is sick in Part 1, Chapter 13?
(a) Eva Rosin.
(b) Mary Rose Hamilton.
(c) Rosaline Honeck.
(d) Elizabeth Talbot.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Lolita have her first heterosexual experience?

2. 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?

3. The narrator describes a “man having a lavish epileptic fit on the ground” where, in Part 2, Chapter 2?

4. How old is Charlotte Haze described as being in Part 1, Chapter 10?

5. Who is described by the narrator in Part 1, Chapter 18 as “a rosy honey in a Girl Scout uniform, beret of green worsted, belt of green webbing, charming shoulder-long curls”?

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