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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states in Part 1, Chapter 25, “Oh, Lolita, you are my girl, as” who “was Poe’s”?
(a) “Annabel Lee.”
(b) “Vee.”
(c) “Charlotte.”
(d) “Venus.”

2. The narrator states in Part 1, Chapter 1, “You can always count on a murderer for” what?
(a) “A fancy prose style.”
(b) “A solid alibi.”
(c) “A silent, wicked lie.”
(d) “A turn of matching turns.”

3. In Part 1, Chapter 29, H.H. says that “by six she was wide awake” and by what time were they “technically lovers”?
(a) 7:45
(b) 8:00
(c) 7:30
(d) 6:15

4. Charlotte Haze is described by the narrator in Part 1, Chapter 10 as having “quite simple but not unattractive features of a type that may be defined as a weak solution of” whom?
(a) Katharine Hepburn.
(b) Betty Grable.
(c) Marlene Dietrich.
(d) Marilyn Monroe.

5. Who telephones H.H. to tell him that Charlotte has been killed in Part 1, Chapter 22?
(a) Leslie Tomson.
(b) Avis Chapson.
(c) Shirley Holmes.
(d) Rosaline Honeck.

6. 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) With a piece of tape.
(d) He licks it out.

7. What does H.H. describe Lolita’s weight as being when he is purchasing new clothes for her in Part 1, Chapter 25?
(a) 55 pounds.
(b) 78 pounds.
(c) 60 pounds.
(d) 71 pounds.

8. Each of the cabins at Lolita’s summer camp is describe as being dedicated to what in Part 1, Chapter 27?
(a) A type of wildflower.
(b) A Shakespeare character.
(c) A Native American tribe.
(d) A Disney character.

9. The narrator describes Lolita as standing how tall “in one sock” in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) 4'10''
(b) 5’3”
(c) 4'6''
(d) 5'1''

10. 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) “Cleaning every corner of the house.”
(d) “Watch over everything.”

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

12. The narrator asserts in Part 1, Chapter 5 that “Dante fell madly in love with Beatrice when she was” how old?
(a) 4
(b) 6
(c) 9
(d) 7

13. The hotel called Enchanted Hunters is located how far from Lolita’s summer camp in Part 1, Chapter 25?
(a) A 5-hour drive.
(b) A 1-hour drive.
(c) A 7-hour drive.
(d) A 4-hour drive.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say Lolita’s name was “on the dotted line” in Part 1, Chapter 1?

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

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?

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