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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. When Lolita becomes ill in Part 2, Chapter 22, H.H. says he immediately thinks of what, “as any American parent would”?
(a) Tetanus.
(b) Dysentery.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Poliomyelitis.

2. What does H.H. describe Lolita’s weekly allowance as at “the start of the Beardsley era” in Part 2, Chapter 7?
(a) 72 cents.
(b) 10 cents.
(c) 50 cents.
(d) 21 cents.

3. Inside of what book of Lolita’s does H.H. say he once discovered eight one-dollar notes in Part 2, Chapter 7?
(a) Treasure Island.
(b) Don Quixote.
(c) Robinson Crusoe.
(d) Frankenstein.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does H.H. say his “little concubine” weighs now in Part 2, Chapter 15?

2. Who is the author of the play The Enchanted Hunters in the novel?

3. When H.H. and Lolita leave for a road trip in Part 2, Chapter 15, H.H. tells the Beardsley School that he is consulting on a film in Hollywood dealing with what?

4. How far does H.H. say he drove to buy books for Lolita while she was hospitalized in Part 2, Chapter 22?

5. H.H. describes inspecting “a collection of European hotel picture post cards in a museum devoted to hobbies” at a resort where, in Part 2, Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Lolita’s school friend write to her in Part 2, Chapter 19? What happens as H.H. reads the letter?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What events does H.H. describe during the period surrounding Lolita’s birthday in Part 2, Chapter 12?

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