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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. When H.H. and Lolita leave for a road trip in Part 2, Chapter 15, H.H. tells the Beardsley School that he is consulting on a film in Hollywood dealing with what?
(a) Classicism.
(b) Surrealism.
(c) Existentialism.
(d) Post-modernism.

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

3. What is the name of Charlotte Haze’s late husband and Lolita’s father in the novel?
(a) Gaston Godin.
(b) Harold E. Haze.
(c) Richard Schiller.
(d) John Galsworthy.

4. What author of Ulysses does the narrator mention in Part 2, Chapter 18?
(a) Charlie Holmes.
(b) Vladimir Nabokov.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Jerome Dunn.

5. Which of Lolita’s school friends is described by H.H. as “a displaced little person from France” in Part 2, Chapter 9?
(a) Mary Rose Hamilton.
(b) Eva Rosen.
(c) Eva Rosen.
(d) Linda Hall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of his poem written about Lolita, H.H. says in Part 2, Chapter 25, “By psychoanalyzing this poem, I notice it is really” what?

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

3. To what doctor does H.H. take Lolita when she becomes ill in Part 2, Chapter 22?

4. Because the picnic is postponed, Lolita refuses to go where with her mother in Part 1, Chapter 13?

5. What name does the narrator give the “main character” in his described scenario with Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 13?

(see the answer key)

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