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

2. Where does H.H. describe seeing a “boulder, with a plaque, in memory of the author of “Trees” in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Poplar Cove, North Carolina.
(b) Maple Hill, Pennsylvania.
(c) Birch Knoll, New York.
(d) Pine Point, Maine.

3. At what motel office does H.H. discover Lolita’s kidnapper has written his entry as “Dr. Gratiano Forbeson, Mirandola, NY” in Part 2, Chapter 23?
(a) Ponderosa Lodge.
(b) Shooting Star Lodge.
(c) Sequoia Lodge.
(d) Dogwood Lodge.

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

5. 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 Gold.
(c) Miss Redcock.
(d) Miss Molar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of Lolita’s tennis abilities, the narrator says in Part 2, Chapter 20 that one of the pearls of her game “was a short half-volley that Ned Litam had taught her” where?

2. What month is it when Miss Pratt asks H.H. to come for a talk to discuss Lolita’s progress in school in Part 2, Chapter 11?

3. H.H. describes visiting the “starting point of the Old Oregon Trail” where in Part 2, Chapter 2?

4. Who examines Lolita when she catches “a bad chill” in Part 2, Chapter 12?

5. How tall does H.H. describe his “little concubine” in Part 2, Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

7. When does Miss Pratt call H.H. to a meeting in Part 2, Chapter 11? What are his impressions as he enters the meeting?

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

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

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

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