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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Starry Night.
(b) The Mona Lisa.
(c) Water Lillies.
(d) Whistler's Mother.

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

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

4. H.H. says he and Lolita were “somewhere between Snow and” what town when they got a flat in Part 2, Chapter 19?
(a) Corfu.
(b) Lepingville.
(c) Beardsley.
(d) Champion.

5. 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) John Galsworthy.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Richard Schiller.

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

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

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

9. To whom does Miss Pratt say Lolita is “impossibly rude” in Part 2, Chapter 11?
(a) Miss Molar.
(b) Miss Redcock.
(c) Miss Gold.
(d) Miss Cormorant.

10. Who is the college clergyman that also teaches Bible at Beardsley School in Part 2, Chapter 8?
(a) Vanessa van Ness.
(b) Shirley Holmes.
(c) Linda Hall
(d) Clare Quilty.

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

12. What does H.H. buy for Lolita for her fifteenth birthday in Part 2, Chapter 12?
(a) A bicycle.
(b) A necklace.
(c) A coat.
(d) A watch.

13. 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?
(a) Classicism.
(b) Post-modernism.
(c) Surrealism.
(d) Existentialism.

14. Who does Miss Pratt say thinks Lolita is “myopic and should see a good ophthalmologist” in Part 2, Chapter 11?
(a) Miss Redcock.
(b) Miss Molar.
(c) Miss Cormorant.
(d) Miss Gold.

15. Which of Lolita’s friends is referred to by the narrator as “the school tennis champion” in Part 2, Chapter 9?
(a) Vanessa van Ness.
(b) Clare Quilty.
(c) Linda Hall.
(d) Shirley Holmes.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

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. 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?

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