Nabokov's "Lolita": Part One

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1. What is Lolita's given name? Charlotte Haze Dolly Haze Dolores Haze Lola 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? Valechka Valentina Valeria Veichsput

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

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

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

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? Hamilton Beardsley Ramsdale Lepingville

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

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

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

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? Mrs. Farlow Lolita Charlotte Louise