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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. Of his poem written about Lolita, H.H. says in Part 2, Chapter 25, “By psychoanalyzing this poem, I notice it is really” what?
(a) “A criminal’s confession.”
(b) “A Christian’s confession.”
(c) “A maniac’s masterpiece.”
(d) “A sick man’s salvation.”

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

3. What “ghost town in New Mexico, where bad man Russian Bill was colorfully hanged seventy years ago” does H.H. describe visiting with Lolita in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Montague.
(b) Dunsmuir.
(c) William’s Flat.
(d) Shakespeare.

4. What locale is described in Part 2, Chapter 16 as the “gem of a western State where [Lolita] yearned to climb Red Rock”?
(a) Ramsdale.
(b) Elphinstone.
(c) Lepingville.
(d) Briceland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the college clergyman that also teaches Bible at Beardsley School in Part 2, Chapter 8?

2. What location does the narrator describe in Part 2, Chapter 2, as somber with “its colored hot springs, baby geysers, rainbows of bubbling mud--symbols of my passion”?

3. The man who rents H.H. his home in Part 2, Chapter 4 is a teacher of what at the local college?

4. How much per day does Lolita’s private hospital room cost, according to the narrator in Part 2, Chapter 22?

5. Who is H.H. told checked Lolita out of the hospital in Part 2, Chapter 22?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does H.H. describe his motivations for writing down this information in Part 2, Chapter 2? What does he describe?

2. What does H.H. describe about his and Lolita’s experiences at the cinema in Part 2, Chapter 3?

3. How has Lolita’s behavior toward H.H. changed in Part 2, Chapter 3? What are his principle motivations in this chapter?

4. Why does H.H. regret not going to Mexico in Part 2, Chapter 3?

5. How does H.H. describe his friendship with Gaston Godin in Part 2? Why is H.H. not as concerned about Gaston as he is the other neighbors?

6. What does H.H. remark about the poem he has written in Part 2, Chapter 25?

7. What does H.H. learn from the hospital regarding Lolita’s departure and location in Part 2, Chapter 22? How does he respond?

8. How does H.H. characterize his neighbors in Beardsley in Part 2, Chapter 4? What relationship does he carry on with these characters?

9. What mysterious incident takes place involving a phone call to H.H. in Part 2, Chapter 21?

10. What does Miss Pratt inform H.H. about his stepdaughter’s performance at the Beardsley School in Part 2, Chapter 11?

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