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

2. 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) Dunsmuir.
(b) William’s Flat.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Montague.

3. H.H. tells Lolita in Part 2, Chapter 15 that she should watch her diet, telling her “The tour of your thigh, you know, should not exceed” what?
(a) “Fourteen and one quarter inches.”
(b) “Seventeen and a half inches.”
(c) “Fifteen and three quarter inches.”
(d) “Nineteen inches.”

4. The character Vivian Darkbloom described in Part 2, Chapter 18 is an anagram for whose name?
(a) John Galsworthy’s.
(b) Charlie Holmes'.
(c) John Farlow's.
(d) Dr. Ilse Tristramson’s.

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

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. says he and Lolita were “somewhere between Snow and” what town when they got a flat in Part 2, Chapter 19?

3. What location is described as the “home of the Wild Bill Something Rodeo” in Part 2, Chapter 2?

4. Where does H.H. describe seeing a “boulder, with a plaque, in memory of the author of “Trees” in Part 2, Chapter 2?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Miss Pratt advise H.H. regarding his stepdaughter’s sexual education in Part 2, Chapter 11?

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

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

4. How does H.H. effectively manipulate Lolita into secrecy regarding their sexual relationship 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 characterize Lolita’s demeanor in Part 2, Chapter 1?

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

8. Where does H.H. meet the character named Rita in Part 2? How does he describe their relationship?

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

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

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