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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what play does Miss Pratt say that Lolita must be allowed to participate in Part 2, Chapter 11?
(a) The Crucible.
(b) Our Town.
(c) The Hunted Enchanters.
(d) A Midsummer's Night Dream.

2. What does H.H. describe Lolita’s weekly allowance as at “the start of the Beardsley era” in Part 2, Chapter 7?
(a) 10 cents.
(b) 50 cents.
(c) 21 cents.
(d) 72 cents.

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

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

5. Where does H.H. describe Professor Albert Riggs living in Part 2, Chapter 24?
(a) 621 Lorenz Lane.
(b) 290 Walter Street.
(c) 748 Humphrey Avenue.
(d) 24 Pritchard Road.

6. 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) Arkansas.
(b) Florida.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Mississippi.

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

8. Where do H.H. and Lolita stay in a two-room cabin in Elphinstone in Part 2, Chapter 22?
(a) Golden Spike Court.
(b) Diamond Lake Court.
(c) Silver Spur Court.
(d) Emerald Bay Court.

9. What locale is described in Part 2, Chapter 16 as the “gem of a western State where [Lolita] yearned to climb Red Rock”?
(a) Ramsdale.
(b) Briceland.
(c) Elphinstone.
(d) Lepingville.

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

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

12. What are the “four D’s” that are stressed at the girl’s school where Lolita begins studying in Part 2, Chapter 4?
(a) Dramatics, Details, Debating, and Drawing.
(b) Dramatics, Dance, Debating, and Dating.
(c) Decisions, Dance, Dreams, and Dating.
(d) Decisions, Dreams, Details, and Drawing.

13. 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) Mrs. Holigan.
(c) Miss Dunn.
(d) Miss Honeck.

14. How much does H.H. say his “little concubine” weighs now in Part 2, Chapter 15?
(a) 97 pounds.
(b) 90 pounds.
(c) 107 pounds.
(d) 68 pounds.

15. H.H. says he and Lolita were “somewhere between Snow and” what town when they got a flat in Part 2, Chapter 19?
(a) Corfu.
(b) Lepingville.
(c) Beardsley.
(d) Champion.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Miss Pratt say Lolita is “defiant” in Part 2, Chapter 11?

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

3. 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”?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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