Lolita Quizzes

Lolita Quiz 1

1 Who writes the foreword?
Humbert

John Ray, Jr.

Nabokov

Sigmund Freud
2 What number on Lawn Street is Haze's house?
27,000

666

112

342
3 What is Lolita's full first name?
Dolly

Lolita

Lo

Dolores
4 What kind of apple does Lolita eat in front of Humbert?
Green

Red delicious

Granny smith

Fuji
5 How does Humbert usually refer to his readers?
As angels

As jury members

As Lolita

As scholars
6 Who follows Humbert and Lolita around on their road trip?
Vivian Darkbloom

John Ray, Jr.

Dick Schiller

Clare Quilty
7 "Vivian Darkbloom" is an anagram of what famous author?
Charles Dickens

Vladimir Nabokov

William Shakespeare

Peter Kim Wayne
8 Who, according to Humbert, was Lolita's predecessor?
Annabel

Valeria

Eve

Haze
9 What is the literary term for a character's "double"?
Doublement

Two-timer

Doppelgänger

Jekylian
10 What is Humbert's term for seductive young girls?
Nymphets

Nymphs

Lolitas

Sprites
11 Who is Lolita's young friend who covers for her lies?
Rosalind

Mona

Jenny

Aubrey
12 What is Humbert's term for fate?
O'Fate

McFate

Walter Fater

Fade
13 What hotel nearly shares its name with a play by Quilty?
The Rosewood Inn

Never Talk To Strangers

The Mush Room

The Enchanted Hunter
14 How long do Humbert and Lolita spend on the road their first time around?
Three months

Two years

One year

Six months
15 How does Haze die?
She is hit by a car

Of cancer

Humbert strangles her

She is struck by lightning
16 How did Humbert's mother die?
Of cancer

She is struck by lightning

She is hit by a car

Humbert strangles her
17 Which author does Annabel Leigh allude to?
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Edgar Allen Poe

William Shakespeare

Robert Louis Stevenson
18 How does Humbert initially plan to kill Haze?
By drowning her

By overdosing her

By shooting her

By smothering her
19 Whom does Humbert travel around with after Lolita disappears?
Haze

Valeria

Mona

Rita
20 What is the name of Lolita's summer camp director?
Miss Sturie

Hagatha Christie

Bea Arthur Conan Doyle

Shirley Holmes
21 What is the name of the lake Haze takes Humbert to?
Hourglass Lake

Walden Pond

Walled-In Pond

Our Glass Lake
22 What language is Humbert a scholar of?
French

English

Humbertish

Russian
23 What is Gaston Godin's sexual preference?
Young boys

Young girls

Old women

Old men
24 What color car first follows Humbert around?
Chiaroscuro Crimson

Aztec Red

Doppelgänger Gray

Bay Blue
25 How does Humbert kill Quilty?
By strangling him

By shooting him once in the head

By shooting him repeatedly

By shooting him once in the groin

What's the main point of this book?

Dave,

Please refrain yourself by noting that you're the man today at Mel. She's trying to do her work.

So shut up Dave.

Asked by Mel

Answered by maria m #389279 on 9/25/2014 11:22 AM

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Is Lolita By Vladimir Nabokov art or trash?

I think that dismissing this as trash because one finds the content offensive is missing the point of art. This book is considered a classic for a reason. Relationships between old men and girls exist despite the disturbing nature of them. Lolita...

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Answered by Aslan on 4/28/2016 4:14 AM

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Lolita

Since Nabokov believes fiction should not be moral, but only aesthetic, he mocks our tendency to make moral judgments by having Humbert address his readers as jury members and judges. Humbert attempts to remove moral responsibility for his actions...

Asked by gerry c #409647

Answered by Aslan on 12/30/2014 11:23 PM

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Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

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