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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the final line of Part 1, Chapter 1, the narrator addresses the “ladies and gentlemen of the jury,” saying “Look at this tangle of” what?
2. Where does the narrator say his father owned a luxurious hotel in Part 1, Chapter 2?
3. What hotel does Charlotte suggests to H.H. that they go to in Part 1, Chapter 21?
4. Lolita shows H.H. at picture from a magazine in Part 1, Chapter 13. In the picture, a surrealist painter is relaxing on a beach near a plaster replica of what work of art?
5. The narrator of the novel says that he was born in what year in Part 1, Chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. What written work does H.H. present in Part 1, Chapter 11? What is revealed through this text?
2. How does H.H.’s sexual experience with Lolita progress in Part 1, Chapter 13?
3. How would you characterize H.H. as narrator of the story, based on his language style in Part 1, Chapters 1-6?
4. What does H.H. discover about his reservation when he arrives at the Enchanted Hunters Inn in Part 1, Chapter 27?
5. What does H.H. relate of his first wife’s later whereabouts and death in Part 1, Chapter 8?
6. How does H.H. succeed in drugging Lolita in Part 1, Chapter 27?
7. What conversation do H.H. and Lolita have regarding her mother when he arrives at camp in Part 1, Chapter 27?
8. What events lead to H.H. and Lolita being alone together in the house in Part 1, Chapter 13? How does he describe their meeting in the house?
9. How does H.H. characterize his domestic life with Charlotte after marriage in Part 1, Chapter 18?
10. How does H.H. describe the dissolution of his first marriage in Part 1, Chapter 8?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss pedophilia and hebephilia, as well as the different qualities, symptoms, and assessments of each. How does contemporary psychiatry explain these phenomena? How are pedophiles and hebophiles treated for their sexual obsessions with children? Is there such a thing as “recovery” from pedophilia and hebephilia?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the setting of the novel. During what time period is the narrative set? How is this established through exposition? What aspects of this era stand out and how does the period differ from today?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss H.H.’s visit to the clothing stores in Parkington and his purchases there. Why does H.H. make these purchases? What reservations does he have interacting with the saleswomen? Why?
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