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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what doctor does H.H. go to obtain sleeping medication in Part 1, Chapter 22?
(a) Dr. Quilty.
(b) Dr. Tristramson.
(c) Dr. Byron.
(d) Dr. Blue.

3. The narrator says in Part 1, Chapter 2 that his mother was an English girl and the daughter of what alpinist?
(a) Charlie Holmes.
(b) John Galsworthy.
(c) Jerome Dunn.
(d) Gustave Trapp.

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

5. What kind of art does Valeria produce?
(a) Realist paintings.
(b) Cubist paintings.
(c) Classical sculpture.
(d) Art deco furniture.

6. The narrator describes the “Time” in his scenario with Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 13 as being in what month?
(a) April.
(b) November.
(c) September.
(d) June.

7. In what year does H.H. marry Valeria?
(a) 1935
(b) 1944
(c) 1932
(d) 1927

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

9. 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) “Monkeying with the furniture.”
(b) “Denying herself sleep.”
(c) “Watch over everything.”
(d) “Cleaning every corner of the house.”

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

11. 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 Hamiltons.
(b) The Farlows.
(c) The Galsworthys.
(d) The Chapmans.

12. Where does H.H. hear that the McCoos have a room to rent in Part 1, Chapter 10?
(a) Kasbeam.
(b) Ramsdale.
(c) Briceland.
(d) Independent.

13. What is the name of Mrs. Chatfield’s daughter that is going to a summer camp in Part 1, Chapter 14?
(a) Fay.
(b) Clare.
(c) Rita.
(d) Phyllis.

14. What girl does Lolita say “instructed her in various manipulations” at camp in Part 1, Chapter 32?
(a) Elizabeth Talbot.
(b) Clare Quilty.
(c) Vanessa van Ness.
(d) Shirley Holmes.

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) 1919
(b) 1931
(c) 1924
(d) 1912

Short Answer Questions

1. What does H.H. describe Lolita’s weight as being when he is purchasing new clothes for her in Part 1, Chapter 25?

2. H.H. learns at the hotel that because of a religious convention and flower show, they were unable to hold his room past what time in Part 1, Chapter 27?

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

4. How old was H.H. when his mother died?

5. How many years her senior does Charlotte Haze say her late husband was in Part 1, Chapter 16?

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