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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does H.H. hear that the McCoos have a room to rent in Part 1, Chapter 10?
(a) Ramsdale.
(b) Independent.
(c) Briceland.
(d) Kasbeam.

2. Of his wife Charlotte, H.H. says in Part 1, Chapter 18, “the only couple with whom she had relations of real cordiality, devoid of any arriõre-pensèe or practical foresight, were” with what couple that had just returned from Chile?
(a) The Hamiltons.
(b) The Chapmans.
(c) The Galsworthys.
(d) The Farlows.

3. H.H. learns at the hotel that because of a religious convention and flower show, they were unable to hold his room past what time in Part 1, Chapter 27?
(a) 6 p.m.
(b) 4 p.m.
(c) 3 p.m.
(d) 12 p.m.

4. How many days does H.H. say he and Charlotte cohabitated in Part 1, Chapter 18?
(a) 21
(b) 15
(c) 76
(d) 50

5. At the end of Part 1, Chapter 22, the narrator states, “Remarkable how difficult it is to conceal things--especially when one's wife keeps” what?
(a) “Cleaning every corner of the house.”
(b) “Denying herself sleep.”
(c) “Monkeying with the furniture.”
(d) “Watch over everything.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Charlotte Haze is described by the narrator in Part 1, Chapter 10 as having “quite simple but not unattractive features of a type that may be defined as a weak solution of” whom?

2. What is the name of the maid at Charlotte Haze’s home in Part 1, Chapter 10?

3. Charlotte tells H.H. in Part 1, Chapter 18 that if he “did not believe in Our Christian God, she would” do what?

4. What girl does Lolita say “instructed her in various manipulations” at camp in Part 1, Chapter 32?

5. Because the picnic is postponed, Lolita refuses to go where with her mother in Part 1, Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does H.H. describe the dissolution of his first marriage in Part 1, Chapter 8?

2. What solidifies H.H.’s intentions regarding Charlotte and Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 17? What action does he take?

3. What written work does H.H. present in Part 1, Chapter 11? What is revealed through this text?

4. How does H.H. describe his suppression of his lust for young girls in Part 1, Chapter 5?

5. What are H.H.’s intentions and concerns as he leaves Ramsdale in Part 1, Chapter 24?

6. How does H.H. respond to Charlotte’s suggestion of going to England in Part 1, Chapter 21?

7. How does H.H. describe his first months in North America in Part 1, Chapter 9? Where does he live and work?

8. Why does H.H. visit his “family doctor” in Part 1, Chapter 22? What does he obtain there?

9. What preparations does H.H. make toward furthering his agenda with Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 25?

10. What events lead to H.H. and Lolita being alone together in the house in Part 1, Chapter 13? How does he describe their meeting in the house?

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