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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. Who does Miss Pratt say thinks Lolita is “myopic and should see a good ophthalmologist” in Part 2, Chapter 11?
(a) Miss Cormorant.
(b) Miss Redcock.
(c) Miss Gold.
(d) Miss Molar.

2. What town is described in Part 2, Chapter 16 as being “only thirty miles north from [Lolita’s] home town”?
(a) Kasbeam.
(b) Elphinstone.
(c) Ramsdale.
(d) Champion.

3. H.H. says that on his cross-country adventure with Lolita from August 1947 to August 1948, they avoided Florida because who were there in Part 2, Chapter 1?
(a) Mark and Michelle Anderson.
(b) Lolita's grandparents.
(c) Michael and Andrew Smith.
(d) John and Jean Farlow.

4. What is the name of the “brisk, briskly rouged, blue-eyed widow who ran the motor court” in Part 2, Chapter 22?
(a) Miss Hays.
(b) Miss Fabian.
(c) Mrs. Holigan.
(d) Miss Redcock.

5. How much per day does Lolita’s private hospital room cost, according to the narrator in Part 2, Chapter 22?
(a) $7
(b) $20
(c) $34
(d) $13

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the address of the house that H.H. rents for himself and Lolita in the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 4?

2. H.H. tells Lolita in Part 2, Chapter 1 that if she should go to the authorities, he will be arrested but she will become the ward of whom?

3. Who has rented H.H. and Lolita a house in Part 2, Chapter 3?

4. Of his poem written about Lolita, H.H. says in Part 2, Chapter 25, “By psychoanalyzing this poem, I notice it is really” what?

5. What locale is described in Part 2, Chapter 16 as the “gem of a western State where [Lolita] yearned to climb Red Rock”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does H.H. go about finding the missing Lolita in Part 2, Chapter 19?

2. How does H.H. go about finding Lolita in Part 2, Chapter 23? How successful is he in tracking her down?

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

4. How does the narrator characterize Lolita’s demeanor in Part 2, Chapter 1?

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

6. How does the narrator describe the conflicts and resolutions between himself and Lolita in Part 2, Chapter 2?

7. How does Vladimir Nabokov demonstrate irony in Part 2, Chapter 2?

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

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

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

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