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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The person who checked Lolita out of the hospital in Part 2, Chapter 22 is said to have brought her what?
(a) A white rabbit.
(b) A yellow canary.
(c) A cocker spaniel puppy.
(d) An orange kitten.

2. Which of Lolita’s school friends is described in Part 2, Chapter 9 as “a plump lateral child with hairy legs”?
(a) Avis Chapman.
(b) Mona Dahl.
(c) Eva Rosen.
(d) Shirley Holmes.

3. To whom does Miss Pratt say Lolita is “defiant” in Part 2, Chapter 11?
(a) Miss Cormorant.
(b) Miss Redcock.
(c) Miss Molar.
(d) Miss Gold.

4. When H.H. and Lolita leave for a road trip in Part 2, Chapter 15, H.H. tells the Beardsley School that he is consulting on a film in Hollywood dealing with what?
(a) Post-modernism.
(b) Classicism.
(c) Surrealism.
(d) Existentialism.

5. Of what act does the narrator say he deplores “as lending itself to a dreadful pun, the revenge that the Gods of Semantics take against tight-zippered Philistines” in Part 2, Chapter 1?
(a) The Doll Act.
(b) The Robinson Act.
(c) The Mann Act.
(d) The Tate Act.

6. Who is Bill Mead’s companion on the tennis courts in Part 2, Chapter 20?
(a) Eva Rosen.
(b) Mary Rose Hamilton.
(c) Leslie Tomson.
(d) Fay Page.

7. H.H. tells Lolita in Part 2, Chapter 1 that if she should go to the authorities, he will be arrested but she will become the ward of whom?
(a) The Department of Public Welfare.
(b) The Department of Child Health.
(c) The Department of Orphaned Children.
(d) The Department of the Treasury.

8. H.H. describes visiting the “starting point of the Old Oregon Trail” where in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Independence, Missouri.
(b) Portland, Oregon.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) Denver, Colorado.

9. What does H.H. buy for Lolita for her fifteenth birthday in Part 2, Chapter 12?
(a) A coat.
(b) A bicycle.
(c) A necklace.
(d) A watch.

10. With whom had Lolita spent a rainy summer in a dilapidated Appalachian farmhouse, according to the narrator in Part 2, Chapter 1?
(a) Miss Cormorant.
(b) Miss Redcock.
(c) Miss Gold.
(d) Miss Phalen.

11. The narrator says in Part 2, Chapter 18, “thought to myself how those fast little articles forget everything, everything, while we, old lovers, treasure every inch of their” what?
(a) “Romance.”
(b) “Story.”
(c) “Detail.”
(d) “Nymphancy.”

12. 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.

13. How many hotels, motels and tourist homes does H.H. say he stayed in as he tracked Lolita and her kidnapper in Part 2, Chapter 23?
(a) 125
(b) 220
(c) 342
(d) 277

14. Of Lolita’s tennis abilities, the narrator says in Part 2, Chapter 20 that one of the pearls of her game “was a short half-volley that Ned Litam had taught her” where?
(a) “In Washington.”
(b) “In Illinois.”
(c) “In Texas.”
(d) “In California.”

15. The narrator says of Lolita’s friend Mona in Part 2, Chapter 9 that she “was burdened with” an I.Q. of what?
(a) 89
(b) 62
(c) 125
(d) 150

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does H.H. believe to be following him and Lolita in a red convertible in Part 2, Chapter 18?

2. H.H. describes going with Lolita to see “granite obelisk commemorating the Battle of” what, in Part 2, Chapter 2?

3. Where do H.H. and Lolita stay in a two-room cabin in Elphinstone in Part 2, Chapter 22?

4. The narrator states in Part 2, Chapter 20, “By permitting Lolita to study acting I had, fond fool, suffered her to” what?

5. According to the narrator in Part 2, Chapter 23, he and Lolita had seldom made more than how many miles per day during their most recent journey?

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