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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. 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?
(a) The Department of Orphaned Children.
(b) The Department of Public Welfare.
(c) The Department of the Treasury.
(d) The Department of Child Health.

2. 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) $13
(d) $34

3. Among whom does the narrator claim in Part 2, Chapter 1 “sexual relations between a father and his daughter are accepted as a matter of course”?
(a) Russians.
(b) Sicilians.
(c) Egyptians.
(d) Mexicans.

4. Where does Lolita passionately desire to see the Ceremonial Dances marking the seasonal opening of Magic Cave, in Part 2, Chapter 16?
(a) Independence, Missouri.
(b) Wace, Continental Divide.
(c) Poplar Cove, North Carolina.
(d) Abilene, Kansas.

5. The man who rents H.H. his home in Part 2, Chapter 4 is a teacher of what at the local college?
(a) Chemistry.
(b) Geometry.
(c) Geography.
(d) English.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the “brisk, briskly rouged, blue-eyed widow who ran the motor court” in Part 2, Chapter 22?

2. Where in New Orleans does the tour guide describe sidewalks that may “feature entertainment by pickaninnies who will tap-dance for pennies” in Part 2, Chapter 2?

3. When Lolita becomes ill in Part 2, Chapter 22, H.H. says he immediately thinks of what, “as any American parent would”?

4. The narrator describes a “man having a lavish epileptic fit on the ground” where, in Part 2, Chapter 2?

5. Of what act does the narrator say he deplores “as lending itself to a dreadful pun, the revenge that the Gods of Semantics take against tight-zippered Philistines” in Part 2, Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who does H.H. believe to be following him and Lolita in Part 2, Chapter 18? For how long has he been tailed?

3. 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?

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

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

6. Where do H.H. and Lolita go after leaving the Enchanted Hunters Inn in Part 2, Chapter 1? Where do they stay?

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

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

9. Where does Lolita claim to have been during her absence in Part 2, Chapter 19? How does H.H. respond?

10. What does H.H. surmise about the play that Lolita is performing in, in Part 2, Chapter 13?

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