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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Annabel die?
(a) Russia.
(b) Corfu.
(c) Chicago.
(d) England.

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

3. How old is Charlotte Haze described as being in Part 1, Chapter 10?
(a) Mid-30s.
(b) Late-20s.
(c) Mid-20s.
(d) Late-40s.

4. What did Annabel die from?
(a) Lyme disease.
(b) Giardiasis.
(c) Amebiasis.
(d) Typhus.

5. What does H.H. tell Lolita the blue pills are that he pretends to take in Part 1, Chapter 27?
(a) Vitamin A.
(b) Vitamin D.
(c) Vitamin K.
(d) Vitamin X.

6. Lolita tells H.H. in Part 1, Chapter 11 that Ginny McCoo nearly died of what?
(a) Polio.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Leishmaniasis.
(d) Filariasis.

7. With whom did Lolita have her first heterosexual experience?
(a) John Galsworthy.
(b) Charlie Holmes.
(c) John Farlow.
(d) Gustove Trapp.

8. Of his wife Charlotte, H.H. says in Part 1, Chapter 18, “the only couple with whom she had relations of real cordiality, devoid of any arriõre-pensèe or practical foresight, were” with what couple that had just returned from Chile?
(a) The Galsworthys.
(b) The Farlows.
(c) The Hamiltons.
(d) The Chapmans.

9. In describing his feelings for Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 14, the narrator says, “The elation with which the vision of new delights filled me was not horrible but” what?
(a) “Sickening.”
(b) “Pathetic.”
(c) “Inspiring.”
(d) “Amusing.”

10. Where does Mrs. Haze live in Part 1, Chapter 10?
(a) 342 Lawn Street.
(b) 475 Oak Lane.
(c) 173 Manzanita Way.
(d) 872 Maple Boulevard.

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

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

13. At the end of Part 1, Chapter 22, the narrator states, “Remarkable how difficult it is to conceal things--especially when one's wife keeps” what?
(a) “Watch over everything.”
(b) “Monkeying with the furniture.”
(c) “Denying herself sleep.”
(d) “Cleaning every corner of the house.”

14. What hotel does Charlotte suggests to H.H. that they go to in Part 1, Chapter 21?
(a) Enchanted Hunters.
(b) The Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac.
(c) Crater Lake Lodge.
(d) The Ahwahnee.

15. H.H. says it was June of what year when a “stray canary had fluttered into [Annabel’s] house and mine, in two widely separated countries” in Part 1, Chapter 4?
(a) 1912
(b) 1924
(c) 1919
(d) 1931

Short Answer Questions

1. Charlotte tells H.H. in Part 1, Chapter 18 that if he “did not believe in Our Christian God, she would” do what?

2. Lolita shows H.H. at picture from a magazine in Part 1, Chapter 13. In the picture, a surrealist painter is relaxing on a beach near a plaster replica of what work of art?

3. What girl does Lolita say “instructed her in various manipulations” at camp in Part 1, Chapter 32?

4. The camp that Charlotte Haze is sending Lolita to in Part 1, Chapter 14 is run by whom?

5. The narrator describes a pocket diary with what golden year inscribed in its upper left-hand corner in Part 1, Chapter 11?

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