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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. Where does the narrator say he loved “a certain initial girl-child” prior to Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) “Behind a famous museum.”
(b) “On a magical mountaintop.”
(c) “In a stagnant swamp.”
(d) “A princedom by the sea.”

2. Which of Lolita’s friends is referred to by the narrator as “the school tennis champion” in Part 2, Chapter 9?
(a) Vanessa van Ness.
(b) Shirley Holmes.
(c) Linda Hall.
(d) Clare Quilty.

3. What is the name of the cleaning woman who H.H. “inherited with the vacuum cleaner from the previous tenants” in Part 2, Chapter 5?
(a) Miss Honeck.
(b) Miss Dunn.
(c) Mrs. Holigan.
(d) Miss Chapman.

4. At what motel office does H.H. discover Lolita’s kidnapper has written his entry as “Dr. Gratiano Forbeson, Mirandola, NY” in Part 2, Chapter 23?
(a) Ponderosa Lodge.
(b) Sequoia Lodge.
(c) Dogwood Lodge.
(d) Shooting Star Lodge.

5. The camp that Charlotte Haze is sending Lolita to in Part 1, Chapter 14 is run by whom?
(a) Leslie Tompson.
(b) Shirley Holmes.
(c) Richard Schiller.
(d) John Galsworthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. H.H. refers to himself as “a brand-new American citizen of” what origin in Part 1, Chapter 25?

2. Where does H.H. describe seeing a “boulder, with a plaque, in memory of the author of “Trees” in Part 2, Chapter 2?

3. Who reports that Lolita’s “tennis form is excellent to superb” in Part 2, Chapter 11?

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

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

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