SparkNotes: Lolita: Quiz

1. Where does Humbert first meet Lolita?

(A) 123 Ramsdale Lane

(B) 555 Beardsley Avenue

(C) 342 Lawn Street

(D) Pavor Manor

2. How does Humbert refer to the readers of his narrative?

(A) As members of a jury

(B) As conspirators

(C) As nymphets

(D) As Americans

3. Who is Humbert’s first love?

(A) Monique

(B) Valeria

(C) Charlotte

(D) Annabel

4. According to John Ray, Jr., Ph.D., what ultimately happens to Humbert?

(A) He shoots himself

(B) He is pardoned for his crime

(C) He dies of a coronary thrombosis

(D) Quilty kills him

5. Who is the narrator of the foreword?

(A) The author of the manuscript

(B) A lawyer hired by the author’s estate

(C) An editor hired by the trial lawyer

(D) A psychiatrist from a sanitarium

6. How does Humbert’s first marriage end?

(A) His wife leaves with another man

(B) He leaves his wife for a young girl

(C) His wife discovers that Humbert is gay

(D) His wife commits suicide

7. In Beardsley, which friend helps Lolita cover her lies?

(A) Rosaline

(B) Mona

(C) Charlie

(D) Harriet

8. Of the following names, which one never gets applied to Lolita?

(A) Dolores

(B) Dolly

(C) Lita

(D) Lo

9. Of the following books, which was written by Nabokov?

(A) Winesburg, Ohio

(B) Speak, Memory

(C) Crime and Punishment

(D) The Enchanted Hunters

10. Lolita eventually marries

(A) Humbert Humbert

(B) Clare Quilty

(C) John Ray, Jr., Ph.D.

(D) Richard Schiller

11. Which of the following characters does not die during the course of the novel?

(A) Annabel Leigh

(B) John Farlow

(C) Jean Farlow

(D) Humbert’s mother

12. What does Pratt believe to be Lolita’s chief problem in school?

(A) She is not artistic

(B) She is having sex with Humbert

(C) She is not sexually mature

(D) She has no friends

13. Who is Clare Quilty’s writing partner?

(A) Vivian Darkbloom

(B) Jack Windmuller

(C) Shirley Holmes

(D) Doug Morgan

14. What do Humbert and Lolita do after Charlotte’s death?

(A) Move to Europe

(B) Travel across the United States

(C) Write a novel together

(D) Live quietly in Ramsdale

15. How does Humbert learn the identity of Lolita’s kidnapper?

(A) He hires a private detective

(B) He retraces his cross-country tour

(C) Lolita tells him

(D) The police help him

16. At the start of the novel, how old is Lolita?

(A) Nine

(B) Twelve

(C) Fifteen

(D) Seventeen

17. What does Humbert teach?

(A) Mathematics

(B) History

(C) Art

(D) English

18. How does Humbert’s marriage to Charlotte end?

(A) Humbert strangles her

(B) She leaves him after finding him with Lolita

(C) She is killed in a car accident

(D) She leaves him for another man

19. Which is not one of Lolita’s hobbies?

(A) Tennis

(B) Horseback Riding

(C) Drawing

(D) Acting

20. Clare Quilty wrote which play?

(A) Scrambled Husbands

(B) Picnic, Lightning

(C) Venice, Revisited

(D) The Enchanted Hunters

21. Who is Lolita’s biological father?

(A) John Farlow

(B) Clare Quilty

(C) Humbert Humbert

(D) Harold Haze

22. Where do Humbert and Lolita first have sex?

(A) In her bedroom

(B) In a hotel room

(C) In the a park

(D) In a movie theater

23. Before studying literature, Humbert considers majoring in what subject?

(A) Psychology

(B) French

(C) Art criticism

(D) Theater

24. Where do Humbert and Quilty first exchange words?

(A) At Quilty’s mansion

(B) On the phone, from the Haze household

(C) Backstage at Lolita’s play

(D) On the terrace of a hotel

25. How does Lolita die?

(A) Of cancer

(B) In a car crash

(C) In childbirth

(D) Of old age