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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What “ghost town in New Mexico, where bad man Russian Bill was colorfully hanged seventy years ago” does H.H. describe visiting with Lolita in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Dunsmuir.
(b) William’s Flat.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Montague.

2. 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) 277
(c) 220
(d) 342

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

4. What does H.H. say he detests “as being a primitive and putrid form, historically speaking; a form that smacks of stone-age rites and communal nonsense despite those individual injections of genius” in Part 2, Chapter 13?
(a) “The opera.”
(b) “The theatre.”
(c) “French literature.”
(d) “Cubist painting.”

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?
(a) 90
(b) 200
(c) 325
(d) 50

6. Who has rented H.H. and Lolita a house in Part 2, Chapter 3?
(a) Gaston Grodin.
(b) John Farlow.
(c) Gustave Trapp.
(d) John Galsworthy.

7. 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 Tate Act.
(b) The Robinson Act.
(c) The Mann Act.
(d) The Doll Act.

8. The narrator states in Part 2, Chapter 20, “By permitting Lolita to study acting I had, fond fool, suffered her to” what?
(a) “Cultivate deceit.”
(b) “Hide her feelings.”
(c) “Develop a fondness for drama.”
(d) “Live a fantasy.”

9. Where in New Orleans does the tour guide describe sidewalks that may “feature entertainment by pickaninnies who will tap-dance for pennies” in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Dauphin Street.
(b) Burgundy Street.
(c) Bourbon Street.
(d) Lafayette Street.

10. Who is the “fadedly feminine” English professor that lives with Miss Lester, according to the narrator in Part 2, Chapter 5?
(a) Miss Cormorant.
(b) Miss Fabian.
(c) Miss Gold.
(d) Miss Molar.

11. H.H. describes finding over twenty-four dollars hoarded by Lolita in a hole in the wall behind what painting in Part 2, Chapter 7?
(a) Water Lillies.
(b) The Mona Lisa.
(c) Starry Night.
(d) Whistler's Mother.

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

13. 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 Public Welfare.
(d) The Department of the Treasury.

14. What month is it when Miss Pratt asks H.H. to come for a talk to discuss Lolita’s progress in school in Part 2, Chapter 11?
(a) May.
(b) July.
(c) October.
(d) December.

15. Which of Lolita’s school friends is described in Part 2, Chapter 9 as “handsome in a coarse sensual way and only a year older than my aging mistress”?
(a) Linda Hall.
(b) Eva Rosen.
(c) Shirley Holmes.
(d) Mona Dahl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does H.H. describe seeing a “boulder, with a plaque, in memory of the author of “Trees” in Part 2, Chapter 2?

2. When Lolita becomes ill in Part 2, Chapter 22, H.H. says he immediately thinks of what, “as any American parent would”?

3. 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?

4. What is the address of the house that H.H. rents for himself and Lolita in the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 4?

5. 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?

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