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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What woman does H.H. become involved in after Lolita’s departure in Part 2, Chapter 26?
(a) Linda.
(b) Rita.
(c) Sybil.
(d) Rosaline.

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

5. How tall does H.H. describe his “little concubine” in Part 2, Chapter 15?
(a) 45 inches.
(b) 64 inches.
(c) 60 inches.
(d) 54 inches.

6. With whom had Lolita spent a rainy summer in a dilapidated Appalachian farmhouse, according to the narrator in Part 2, Chapter 1?
(a) Miss Phalen.
(b) Miss Redcock.
(c) Miss Cormorant.
(d) Miss Gold.

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

8. 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, Dance, Debating, and Dating.
(b) Dramatics, Details, Debating, and Drawing.
(c) Decisions, Dance, Dreams, and Dating.
(d) Decisions, Dreams, Details, and Drawing.

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

10. Of Lolita’s tennis abilities, the narrator says in Part 2, Chapter 20 that one of the pearls of her game “was a short half-volley that Ned Litam had taught her” where?
(a) “In Texas.”
(b) “In Washington.”
(c) “In California.”
(d) “In Illinois.”

11. H.H. describes finding over twenty-four dollars hoarded by Lolita in a hole in the wall behind what painting in Part 2, Chapter 7?
(a) Water Lillies.
(b) Starry Night.
(c) The Mona Lisa.
(d) Whistler's Mother.

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

13. 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?
(a) Ramsdale.
(b) Briceland.
(c) Beardsley.
(d) Abilene.

14. According to the narrator in Part 2, Chapter 23, he and Lolita had seldom made more than how many miles per day during their most recent journey?
(a) 200
(b) 50
(c) 325
(d) 90

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

Short Answer Questions

1. H.H. says he and Lolita were “somewhere between Snow and” what town when they got a flat in Part 2, Chapter 19?

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

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

5. Who reports that Lolita’s “tennis form is excellent to superb” in Part 2, Chapter 11?

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