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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How old does H.H. refer to “his daughter” at the hotel in Part 1, Chapter 27?
(a) 10
(b) 13
(c) 8
(d) 15
2. 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) “On a magical mountaintop.”
(c) “A princedom by the sea.”
(d) “Behind a famous museum.”
3. To what doctor does H.H. go to obtain sleeping medication in Part 1, Chapter 22?
(a) Dr. Quilty.
(b) Dr. Tristramson.
(c) Dr. Blue.
(d) Dr. Byron.
4. 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?
(a) Elizabeth Talbot.
(b) Mary Rose Hamilton.
(c) Eva Rosin.
(d) Rosaline Honeck.
5. 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 turn of matching turns.”
(d) “A silent, wicked lie.”
6. Why is H.H. unable to stay at the McCoos’ home in Part 1, Chapter 10?
(a) H.H.'s mother forbids it.
(b) Mr. McCoo has been arrested.
(c) Their house burned down.
(d) Their house has been flooded.
7. What did Annabel die from?
(a) Giardiasis.
(b) Lyme disease.
(c) Amebiasis.
(d) Typhus.
8. 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?
(a) 6 p.m.
(b) 12 p.m.
(c) 3 p.m.
(d) 4 p.m.
9. What is the name of the maid at Charlotte Haze’s home in Part 1, Chapter 10?
(a) Clare.
(b) Ann.
(c) Vivian.
(d) Louise.
10. Where does the narrator say his father owned a luxurious hotel in Part 1, Chapter 2?
(a) The Riviera.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Ramsdale.
(d) Beardsley.
11. What had H.H. first planned to take a degree in before he switched to English literature?
(a) Engineering.
(b) Biology.
(c) Geology.
(d) Psychiatry.
12. Because the picnic is postponed, Lolita refuses to go where with her mother in Part 1, Chapter 13?
(a) To the hospital.
(b) To the grocery store.
(c) To church.
(d) To the shoe store.
13. 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.
14. The camp that Charlotte Haze is sending Lolita to in Part 1, Chapter 14 is run by whom?
(a) Leslie Tompson.
(b) John Galsworthy.
(c) Shirley Holmes.
(d) Richard Schiller.
15. How old was Lolita’s younger brother when he died?
(a) 6
(b) 7
(c) 2
(d) 3
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. To what nearby lake does H.H. drive to daily in Part 1, Chapter 20?
3. In Part 1, Chapter 29, H.H. says that “by six she was wide awake” and by what time were they “technically lovers”?
4. According to the narrator of the novel, Valeria later dies during childbirth in what year?
5. 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?
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