Short Lolita Quiz
1. The name of Humbert's first love is:
(A) Lolita
(B) Dolores
(C) Annabel
(D) Charlotte
2. Charlotte dies when she:
(A) Overdoses on sleeping medicine
(B) Drives her car off a bridge
(C) Gets run over
(D) Is strangled by Humbert
3. Humbert's first wife is:
(A) Annabel
(B) Valeria
(C) Delores
(D) Charlotte
4. Humbert is writing Lolita from:
(A) A sanitarium
(B) His home in Mexico
(C) His jail cell
(D) His hotel in France
5. Humbert is put on trial for:
(A) Murdering Clare Quilty
(B) Raping Lolita
(C) Murdering his wife
(D) Tax evasion
6. How are Clare Quilty and the Ramsdale dentist Dr. Quilty related?
(A) They are not
(B) They are twin brothers
(C) They are the same person
(D) They are uncle and nephew
7. The name of the play in which Lolita is cast, which is similar to the name of the hotel in which she and Humbert first have sex, is:
(A) The Enchanted Hunter
(B) The Weary Traveler
(C) The Shipyard
(D) The Highwayman
8. At the beginning of the book, Humbert is working on:
(A) A novel about a baseball team
(B) A compendium of Russian literature
(C) A literary analysis of the writings of James Joyce
(D) An anthology of French literature for English-speaking students
9. Humbert is born in:
(A) Beardsley
(B) New York
(C) St. Petersburg, Russia
(D) Paris, France
10. How does Humbert usually refer to the camp that Lolita attends in Part One?
(A) Camp Nymphet
(B) Camp Q
(C) Camp Pubescence
(D) Camp Lolita
11. Humbert shoot and kills:
(A) No one
(B) Charlotte Haze
(C) Clare Quilty
(D) Lolita
12. After Charlotte dies, Humbert and Lolita:
(A) Spend a year driving all over the country
(B) Go to Paris, where she attends school
(C) Move immediately to Beardsley
(D) Move with the Farlows to Florida
13. The last time in the novel Humbert sees Lolita, she is:
(A) In her mid-20s with three kids
(B) About 18, married and pregnant
(C) Dead
(D) Riding her small bicycle to college in Beardsley
14. Humbert tells the Farlows that he:
(A) Is Lolita's biological father
(B) Is having an affair with Lolita
(C) Does not really love Charlotte
(D) Is a homosexual
15. Charlotte dies soon after:
(A) Learning of Lolita's death
(B) Divorcing Humbert
(C) Marrying a rich Russian soldier
(D) Discovering and reading Humbert's private journal
16. Lolita is born in:
(A) Beardsley
(B) Ramsdale
(C) New York
(D) Paris
17. Charlotte and Lolita live together in a town called:
(A) Beardsley
(B) Ramsdale
(C) Edina
(D) Bloomington
18. Where and how did Humbert's mother die?
(A) (road trip, car accident)
(B) (farm, insane bull)
(C) (picnic, lightning)
(D) (bank, violent robbery)
19. Lolita is an example of a(n):
(A) Aesthetic novel
(B) Novel of manners
(C) Absurdist play
(D) Blank-verse poem
20. Other important books by Vladimir Nabokov include:
(A) The Sound and the Fury and Tender Is the Night
(B) Dubliners and Winesburg, Ohio
(C) Pale Fire and Speak, Memory
(D) This Side of Paradise and Absalom, Absalom!
21. Lolita is Humbert's nickname for:
(A) Charlotte Haze
(B) Vivian Darkbloom
(C) Mona Gold
(D) Delores Haze
22. Humbert is first arrested at the end of the novel for:
(A) Reckless driving
(B) Raping Lolita
(C) Murdering Quilty
(D) Murdering his wife
23. The man who writes the Foreword is:
(A) A real-life lawyer and personal friend of Nabokov
(B) A man from Massachusetts who went to college with Nabokov
(C) A fictional character who is friends with Humbert's lawyer
(D) A fictional character who helps Humbert escape from jail
24. As we learn from the Foreword, Humbert:
(A) Dies before his trial begins
(B) Escapes from jail
(C) Receives a sentence of life in prison
(D) Is executed by lethal injection for first-degree murder
25. After Lolita tells Humbert that she does not want to go to school at Beardsley anymore and that she wants to leave the town, Humbert:
(A) Grounds her for two weeks and forces her to stay in school
(B) Signs her up for the school play to help her meet new friends
(C) Sets out with her on another long cross-country road trip
(D) Immediately takes her back to Ramsdale, where they live for several years
(A) Lolita
(B) Dolores
(C) Annabel
(D) Charlotte
2. Charlotte dies when she:
(A) Overdoses on sleeping medicine
(B) Drives her car off a bridge
(C) Gets run over
(D) Is strangled by Humbert
3. Humbert's first wife is:
(A) Annabel
(B) Valeria
(C) Delores
(D) Charlotte
4. Humbert is writing Lolita from:
(A) A sanitarium
(B) His home in Mexico
(C) His jail cell
(D) His hotel in France
5. Humbert is put on trial for:
(A) Murdering Clare Quilty
(B) Raping Lolita
(C) Murdering his wife
(D) Tax evasion
6. How are Clare Quilty and the Ramsdale dentist Dr. Quilty related?
(A) They are not
(B) They are twin brothers
(C) They are the same person
(D) They are uncle and nephew
7. The name of the play in which Lolita is cast, which is similar to the name of the hotel in which she and Humbert first have sex, is:
(A) The Enchanted Hunter
(B) The Weary Traveler
(C) The Shipyard
(D) The Highwayman
8. At the beginning of the book, Humbert is working on:
(A) A novel about a baseball team
(B) A compendium of Russian literature
(C) A literary analysis of the writings of James Joyce
(D) An anthology of French literature for English-speaking students
9. Humbert is born in:
(A) Beardsley
(B) New York
(C) St. Petersburg, Russia
(D) Paris, France
10. How does Humbert usually refer to the camp that Lolita attends in Part One?
(A) Camp Nymphet
(B) Camp Q
(C) Camp Pubescence
(D) Camp Lolita
11. Humbert shoot and kills:
(A) No one
(B) Charlotte Haze
(C) Clare Quilty
(D) Lolita
12. After Charlotte dies, Humbert and Lolita:
(A) Spend a year driving all over the country
(B) Go to Paris, where she attends school
(C) Move immediately to Beardsley
(D) Move with the Farlows to Florida
13. The last time in the novel Humbert sees Lolita, she is:
(A) In her mid-20s with three kids
(B) About 18, married and pregnant
(C) Dead
(D) Riding her small bicycle to college in Beardsley
14. Humbert tells the Farlows that he:
(A) Is Lolita's biological father
(B) Is having an affair with Lolita
(C) Does not really love Charlotte
(D) Is a homosexual
15. Charlotte dies soon after:
(A) Learning of Lolita's death
(B) Divorcing Humbert
(C) Marrying a rich Russian soldier
(D) Discovering and reading Humbert's private journal
16. Lolita is born in:
(A) Beardsley
(B) Ramsdale
(C) New York
(D) Paris
17. Charlotte and Lolita live together in a town called:
(A) Beardsley
(B) Ramsdale
(C) Edina
(D) Bloomington
18. Where and how did Humbert's mother die?
(A) (road trip, car accident)
(B) (farm, insane bull)
(C) (picnic, lightning)
(D) (bank, violent robbery)
19. Lolita is an example of a(n):
(A) Aesthetic novel
(B) Novel of manners
(C) Absurdist play
(D) Blank-verse poem
20. Other important books by Vladimir Nabokov include:
(A) The Sound and the Fury and Tender Is the Night
(B) Dubliners and Winesburg, Ohio
(C) Pale Fire and Speak, Memory
(D) This Side of Paradise and Absalom, Absalom!
21. Lolita is Humbert's nickname for:
(A) Charlotte Haze
(B) Vivian Darkbloom
(C) Mona Gold
(D) Delores Haze
22. Humbert is first arrested at the end of the novel for:
(A) Reckless driving
(B) Raping Lolita
(C) Murdering Quilty
(D) Murdering his wife
23. The man who writes the Foreword is:
(A) A real-life lawyer and personal friend of Nabokov
(B) A man from Massachusetts who went to college with Nabokov
(C) A fictional character who is friends with Humbert's lawyer
(D) A fictional character who helps Humbert escape from jail
24. As we learn from the Foreword, Humbert:
(A) Dies before his trial begins
(B) Escapes from jail
(C) Receives a sentence of life in prison
(D) Is executed by lethal injection for first-degree murder
25. After Lolita tells Humbert that she does not want to go to school at Beardsley anymore and that she wants to leave the town, Humbert:
(A) Grounds her for two weeks and forces her to stay in school
(B) Signs her up for the school play to help her meet new friends
(C) Sets out with her on another long cross-country road trip
(D) Immediately takes her back to Ramsdale, where they live for several years
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