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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the girl’s name who accompanied “Dr. Gratiano Forbeson, Mirandola, NY,” according to the motel clerk in Part 2, Chapter 23?
(a) Elizabeth Talbot.
(b) Anne Lore.
(c) Mona Dahl.
(d) Eva Rosen.

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. Who examines Lolita when she catches “a bad chill” in Part 2, Chapter 12?
(a) Dr. Byron.
(b) Dr. Ilse Tristramson.
(c) Dr. Quilty.
(d) Dr. Blue.

9. The narrator describes a “man having a lavish epileptic fit on the ground” where, in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
(b) Boulder Rapids State Park.
(c) Russian Gulch State Park.
(d) Boulder Canyon State Park.

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

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

12. How much per day does Lolita’s private hospital room cost, according to the narrator in Part 2, Chapter 22?
(a) $7
(b) $34
(c) $13
(d) $20

13. To what doctor does H.H. take Lolita when she becomes ill in Part 2, Chapter 22?
(a) Dr. Quilty.
(b) Dr. Blue.
(c) Dr. Tristramson.
(d) Dr. Byron.

14. What location does the narrator describe in Part 2, Chapter 2, as somber with “its colored hot springs, baby geysers, rainbows of bubbling mud--symbols of my passion”?
(a) Glacier Park.
(b) Yosemite Park.
(c) Yellowstone Park.
(d) Crater Lake Park.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what play does Miss Pratt say that Lolita must be allowed to participate in Part 2, Chapter 11?

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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