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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. What was Annabel’s last name, according to the narrator in Part 1, Chapter 3?
(a) Leigh.
(b) Honeck.
(c) Holmes.
(d) Cormorant.

2. What does the narrator say Lolita’s name was “on the dotted line” in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) Sybil.
(b) Jean.
(c) Delores.
(d) Charlotte.

3. Each of the cabins at Lolita’s summer camp is describe as being dedicated to what in Part 1, Chapter 27?
(a) A Shakespeare character.
(b) A type of wildflower.
(c) A Disney character.
(d) A Native American tribe.

4. With whom did Lolita have her first heterosexual experience?
(a) John Galsworthy.
(b) Charlie Holmes.
(c) John Farlow.
(d) Gustove Trapp.

5. 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) “A virgin.”
(b) “A minor.”
(c) “An innocent.”
(d) “A child.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the narrator say he loved “a certain initial girl-child” prior to Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 1?

3. Where does H.H. find his pocket diary after Charlotte has taken it from his locked table in Part 1, Chapter 22?

4. 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?

5. How many days does H.H. say he and Charlotte cohabitated in Part 1, Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. How does H.H. describe his parentage, birthplace, and childhood in Part 1, Chapter 2?

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

8. What insinuations does Lolita make regarding her relationship with H.H. in Part 1, Chapter 27?

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

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

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