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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 the Treasury.
(c) The Department of Public Welfare.
(d) The Department of Child Health.

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

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

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

5. 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) Mona Dahl.
(c) Linda Hall.
(d) Shirley Holmes.

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

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

8. 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) 277
(b) 125
(c) 342
(d) 220

9. Which of Lolita’s school friends is described in Part 2, Chapter 9 as “a plump lateral child with hairy legs”?
(a) Eva Rosen.
(b) Mona Dahl.
(c) Avis Chapman.
(d) Shirley Holmes.

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

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

12. 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) Crater Lake Park.
(b) Yosemite Park.
(c) Yellowstone Park.
(d) Glacier Park.

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

14. 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?
(a) “Nymphancy.”
(b) “Romance.”
(c) “Story.”
(d) “Detail.”

15. 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) John Galsworthy.
(d) Richard Schiller.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is ART described as standing for in Part 2, Chapter 2?

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

3. What author of Ulysses does the narrator mention in Part 2, Chapter 18?

4. 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?

5. The narrator states in Part 2, Chapter 1 that after zig-zagging across the country with Lolita from August 1947 to August 1948, they eventually petered out and settled in what college town?

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