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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator in Part 2, Chapter 23, “thousand-mile stretch of silk-smooth road separated Kasbeam” from where?
(a) Beardsley.
(b) Champion.
(c) Lepinville.
(d) Elphinstone.

2. What is the name of the “brisk, briskly rouged, blue-eyed widow who ran the motor court” in Part 2, Chapter 22?
(a) Miss Fabian.
(b) Mrs. Holigan.
(c) Miss Redcock.
(d) Miss Hays.

3. H.H. describes going with Lolita to see “granite obelisk commemorating the Battle of” what, in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) “Blue Licks.”
(b) “Goose Green.”
(c) “Wounded Knee.”
(d) “Bull Run.”

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

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

6. 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) Mona Dahl.
(b) Linda Hall.
(c) Shirley Holmes.
(d) Eva Rosen.

7. The narrator states in Part 2, Chapter 2, “I dimly evoke that Magnolia Garden in a southern state which cost me four bucks and which, according to the ad in the book, you must visit for three reasons.” The first of these reasons is because what “stone-dead writer of sorts” acclaimed it as the world’s fairest garden?
(a) Vladimir Nabokov.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Richard Schiller.
(d) John Galsworthy.

8. Who is the author of the play The Enchanted Hunters in the novel?
(a) Clare Quilty.
(b) Vivian Darkbloom.
(c) Harold E. Haze.
(d) Mona Dahl.

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

10. When Lolita becomes ill in Part 2, Chapter 22, H.H. says he immediately thinks of what, “as any American parent would”?
(a) Poliomyelitis.
(b) Tetanus.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Dysentery.

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

12. 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) Shirley Holmes.
(d) Eva Rosen.

13. The headmistress at the girl’s school where Lolita is enrolled in Part 2, Chapter 4 states that they “are more interested in communication than in” what?
(a) “Composition.”
(b) “Craftsmanship.”
(c) “Culture.”
(d) “Creativity.”

14. What is the address of the house that H.H. rents for himself and Lolita in the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 4?
(a) 29 Reynolds Street.
(b) 77 Franklin Street.
(c) 14 Thayer Street.
(d) 46 Baker Street.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The character Vivian Darkbloom described in Part 2, Chapter 18 is an anagram for whose name?

2. What are the “four D’s” that are stressed at the girl’s school where Lolita begins studying in Part 2, Chapter 4?

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

4. Inside of what book of Lolita’s does H.H. say he once discovered eight one-dollar notes in Part 2, Chapter 7?

5. Who examines Lolita when she catches “a bad chill” in Part 2, Chapter 12?

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