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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) James Joyce.
(b) Richard Schiller.
(c) Vladimir Nabokov.
(d) John Galsworthy.

2. 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?
(a) Dr. Blue's.
(b) Dr. Byron's.
(c) Gaston Grodin’s.
(d) Reverend Riggins’.

3. 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.

4. How many times does H.H. say he visited Lolita at the hospital in Part 2, Chapter 22?
(a) 15
(b) 3
(c) 11
(d) 8

5. 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.

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

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

8. 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?
(a) Shooting Star Lodge.
(b) Sequoia Lodge.
(c) Ponderosa Lodge.
(d) Dogwood Lodge.

9. 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) 72 cents.
(d) 21 cents.

10. H.H. tells Lolita in Part 2, Chapter 15 that she should watch her diet, telling her “The tour of your thigh, you know, should not exceed” what?
(a) “Nineteen inches.”
(b) “Fifteen and three quarter inches.”
(c) “Fourteen and one quarter inches.”
(d) “Seventeen and a half inches.”

11. Of his poem written about Lolita, H.H. says in Part 2, Chapter 25, “By psychoanalyzing this poem, I notice it is really” what?
(a) “A sick man’s salvation.”
(b) “A criminal’s confession.”
(c) “A Christian’s confession.”
(d) “A maniac’s masterpiece.”

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

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

14. What location is described as the “home of the Wild Bill Something Rodeo” in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Cody, Wyoming.
(b) Billings, Montana.
(c) Durango, Colorado.
(d) Abilene, Kansas.

15. How far does H.H. say he drove to buy books for Lolita while she was hospitalized in Part 2, Chapter 22?
(a) 60 miles.
(b) 25 miles.
(c) 12 miles.
(d) 45 miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes a “man having a lavish epileptic fit on the ground” where, in Part 2, Chapter 2?

2. Which of Lolita’s school friends is described by H.H. as “a displaced little person from France” in Part 2, Chapter 9?

3. With whom is Lolita allowed to take piano lessons in Part 2, Chapter 14?

4. When H.H. and Lolita leave for a road trip in Part 2, Chapter 15, H.H. tells the Beardsley School that he is consulting on a film in Hollywood dealing with what?

5. 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?

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