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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is ART described as standing for in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) American Refrigerator Transit.
(b) Aerobic Relay Therapy.
(c) Automatic Radio Transmition.
(d) Artistic Research Theatre.

2. The character Vivian Darkbloom described in Part 2, Chapter 18 is an anagram for whose name?
(a) Dr. Ilse Tristramson’s.
(b) Charlie Holmes'.
(c) John Galsworthy’s.
(d) John Farlow's.

3. Which of Lolita’s friends is referred to by the narrator as “the school tennis champion” in Part 2, Chapter 9?
(a) Shirley Holmes.
(b) Linda Hall.
(c) Clare Quilty.
(d) Vanessa van Ness.

4. What does H.H. describe Lolita’s weekly allowance at the end of “the Beardsley era” in Part 2, Chapter 7?
(a) $1.05
(b) $1.75
(c) $2.25
(d) $3.00

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

6. 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) 220
(b) 277
(c) 342
(d) 125

7. H.H. describes inspecting “a collection of European hotel picture post cards in a museum devoted to hobbies” at a resort where, in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Florida.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Arkansas.

8. Who reports that Lolita’s “tennis form is excellent to superb” in Part 2, Chapter 11?
(a) Miss Molar.
(b) Miss Redcock.
(c) Miss Gold.
(d) Miss Cormorant.

9. H.H. says that on his cross-country adventure with Lolita from August 1947 to August 1948, they avoided Florida because who were there in Part 2, Chapter 1?
(a) John and Jean Farlow.
(b) Mark and Michelle Anderson.
(c) Lolita's grandparents.
(d) Michael and Andrew Smith.

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

11. H.H. describes visiting Little Iceberg Lake somewhere in what state in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Wyoming.
(b) California.
(c) Utah.
(d) Colorado.

12. Who is the college clergyman that also teaches Bible at Beardsley School in Part 2, Chapter 8?
(a) Shirley Holmes.
(b) Linda Hall
(c) Vanessa van Ness.
(d) Clare Quilty.

13. What author of Ulysses does the narrator mention in Part 2, Chapter 18?
(a) Vladimir Nabokov.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Jerome Dunn.
(d) Charlie Holmes.

14. 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 Orphaned Children.
(b) The Department of Child Health.
(c) The Department of the Treasury.
(d) The Department of Public Welfare.

15. What is the name of the cleaning woman who H.H. “inherited with the vacuum cleaner from the previous tenants” in Part 2, Chapter 5?
(a) Miss Chapman.
(b) Miss Honeck.
(c) Mrs. Holigan.
(d) Miss Dunn.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The narrator says of Lolita’s friend Mona in Part 2, Chapter 9 that she “was burdened with” an I.Q. of what?

3. How much does H.H. say his “little concubine” weighs now in Part 2, Chapter 15?

4. When H.H. asks Lolita’s school friend about what kind of boys Lolita knows in Part 2, Chapter 9, the girl replies that they are rivals for whose affections?

5. With whom had Lolita spent a rainy summer in a dilapidated Appalachian farmhouse, according to the narrator in Part 2, Chapter 1?

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