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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. In Part 1, Chapter 29, H.H. says that “by six she was wide awake” and by what time were they “technically lovers”?
(a) 7:30
(b) 6:15
(c) 8:00
(d) 7:45

2. The narrator says in Part 1, Chapter 2 that his mother was an English girl and the daughter of what alpinist?
(a) Jerome Dunn.
(b) John Galsworthy.
(c) Charlie Holmes.
(d) Gustave Trapp.

3. Of his experience with Lolita earlier in the morning, the narrator says in Part 1, Chapter 14, “I felt proud of myself. I had stolen the honey of a spasm without impairing the morals of” what?
(a) “An innocent.”
(b) “A minor.”
(c) “A virgin.”
(d) “A child.”

4. Because the picnic is postponed, Lolita refuses to go where with her mother in Part 1, Chapter 13?
(a) To the grocery store.
(b) To church.
(c) To the shoe store.
(d) To the hospital.

5. How does H.H. remove a speck from Lolita’s eye in Part 1, Chapter 11?
(a) With a piece of tape.
(b) He licks it out.
(c) He blows on it.
(d) He pinches it with his fingers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does the narrator give the “main character” in his described scenario with Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 13?

2. Where does H.H. hear that the McCoos have a room to rent in Part 1, Chapter 10?

3. What did Annabel die from?

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

5. What does the narrator say Lolita’s name was “on the dotted line” in Part 1, Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does H.H. describe his experience with a young French prostitute in Part 1, Chapter 6?

2. How does H.H. describe his young adulthood in Part 1, Chapter 5? How does he define “nymphets” in this chapter?

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

4. How does H.H. describe his dinner with Charlotte Haze in Part 1, Chapter 14?

5. What does H.H. relate of his first wife’s later whereabouts and death in Part 1, Chapter 8?

6. How does H.H. describe his relationship with Annabel in Part 1, Chapters 2-4? What impact did this relationship have on the protagonist?

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

8. What does H.H. discover outside after receiving Leslie Tomson’s phone call in Part 1, Chapter 22?

9. How would you characterize H.H. as narrator of the story, based on his language style in Part 1, Chapters 1-6?

10. How does H.H. succeed in drugging Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 27?

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