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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 is the name of the maid at Charlotte Haze’s home in Part 1, Chapter 10?
(a) Ann.
(b) Louise.
(c) Vivian.
(d) Clare.

2. H.H. says of Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 15 that she would be thirteen on what date?
(a) March 22.
(b) May 13.
(c) August 8.
(d) January 1.

3. On the Sunday when H.H., Charlotte Haze, and Lolita are to go on a picnic, what friend of Lolita’s cancels because she is sick in Part 1, Chapter 13?
(a) Rosaline Honeck.
(b) Mary Rose Hamilton.
(c) Elizabeth Talbot.
(d) Eva Rosin.

4. Where does the narrator say he loved “a certain initial girl-child” prior to Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) “On a magical mountaintop.”
(b) “Behind a famous museum.”
(c) “A princedom by the sea.”
(d) “In a stagnant swamp.”

5. 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 hospital.
(d) To the shoe store.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did H.H.’s father send him to a lycée in Lyon?

2. What was Annabel’s last name, according to the narrator in Part 1, Chapter 3?

3. What couple in H.H. and Charlotte’s neighborhood has a “hysterical setter” that frequently chases cars?

4. H.H. refers to himself as “a brand-new American citizen of” what origin in Part 1, Chapter 25?

5. The narrator describes the “Time” in his scenario with Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 13 as being in what month?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does H.H.’s sexual experience with Lolita progress in Part 1, Chapter 13?

5. Whom does H.H. marry in Part 1, Chapter 8? What eventually leads the protagonist to the United States?

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

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

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

9. How does H.H. characterize his domestic life with Charlotte after marriage in Part 1, Chapter 18?

10. What information does H.H. learn from Charlotte’s letter in Part 1, Chapter 16? How does he respond to this information?

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