Nabokov's "Lolita": Part One

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1. What is Lolita's given name? Dolly Haze Dolores Haze Lola Haze Charlotte Haze

2. Which nationality does not apply to Humbert? Austrian French Russian English

3. Which Nabokov-created academic writes the foreword to Humbert's tale? John Ray, Jr. Harold D. Doublename Clare Quilty Leopold Rigger

4. What was Humbert's first wife called by her new lover? Valeria Valechka Valentina Veichsput

5. What is the actual name of the lake that Humbert, Lolita, and her mother visit? Hourglass Lake Lake Breinmare Our Glass Lake Lake Beardsley

6. What number is both the Haze's street address and the hotel room in which Humbert and Lolita initially stay? 342 1910 683 1400

7. What did Humbert not buy Lolita while in Lepingville? roller skates a mirror a tennis racket comic books

8. Who confesses her love for Humbert in a letter? Lolita Mona, Lolita's friend Louise, the housekeeper Lolita's mother

9. Where does Humbert first see Lolita? at the school dance on the piazza in a dream at a funeral

10. Where do the Hazes live when Humbert first encounters them? Ramsdale Lepingville Beardsley Hamilton

11. What does Humbert not call Lolita in the first chapter? light of my life my tragedy my soul fire of my loins

12. Whom was Humbert first "madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love" with? Laureen Mrs. Leigh Annabel Fraulein von Kulp

13. What does Humbert define as the common age range for a "nymphet?" 9 to 14 6 to 11 16 to 24 13 to 17

14. Which language, besides English, is used most prominently throughout the book? Russian Greek Italian French

15. Who discovers Humbert's private diary, thus discovering his secret lust for Lolita? Charlotte Louise Lolita Mrs. Farlow