Lolita Quizzes

Lolita Quiz 1

1 Who writes the foreword?
Humbert

Sigmund Freud

John Ray, Jr.

Nabokov
2 What number on Lawn Street is Haze's house?
666

27,000

342

112
3 What is Lolita's full first name?
Lolita

Dolly

Lo

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

Green

Granny smith

Red delicious
5 How does Humbert usually refer to his readers?
As Lolita

As jury members

As angels

As scholars
6 Who follows Humbert and Lolita around on their road trip?
Clare Quilty

Dick Schiller

Vivian Darkbloom

John Ray, Jr.
7 "Vivian Darkbloom" is an anagram of what famous author?
Charles Dickens

Peter Kim Wayne

William Shakespeare

Vladimir Nabokov
8 Who, according to Humbert, was Lolita's predecessor?
Annabel

Haze

Valeria

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

Jekylian

Doppelgänger

Two-timer
10 What is Humbert's term for seductive young girls?
Nymphs

Nymphets

Sprites

Lolitas
11 Who is Lolita's young friend who covers for her lies?
Mona

Aubrey

Jenny

Rosalind
12 What is Humbert's term for fate?
McFate

Fade

Walter Fater

O'Fate
13 What hotel nearly shares its name with a play by Quilty?
The Enchanted Hunter

The Rosewood Inn

Never Talk To Strangers

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

Six months

Two years

One year
15 How does Haze die?
Humbert strangles her

Of cancer

She is struck by lightning

She is hit by a car
16 How did Humbert's mother die?
She is struck by lightning

She is hit by a car

Humbert strangles her

Of cancer
17 Which author does Annabel Leigh allude to?
Robert Louis Stevenson

William Shakespeare

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Edgar Allen Poe
18 How does Humbert initially plan to kill Haze?
By smothering her

By shooting her

By overdosing her

By drowning her
19 Whom does Humbert travel around with after Lolita disappears?
Rita

Valeria

Haze

Mona
20 What is the name of Lolita's summer camp director?
Shirley Holmes

Miss Sturie

Bea Arthur Conan Doyle

Hagatha Christie
21 What is the name of the lake Haze takes Humbert to?
Walden Pond

Our Glass Lake

Walled-In Pond

Hourglass Lake
22 What language is Humbert a scholar of?
Russian

English

French

Humbertish
23 What is Gaston Godin's sexual preference?
Old women

Young girls

Young boys

Old men
24 What color car first follows Humbert around?
Bay Blue

Aztec Red

Doppelgänger Gray

Chiaroscuro Crimson
25 How does Humbert kill Quilty?
By strangling him

By shooting him repeatedly

By shooting him once in the groin

By shooting him once in the head

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...

Asked by Jesus A #523760

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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