Quiz 1

Quiz 1

1. What is the name of the only hotel that Humbert and Lolita stay in Part 1?

• The Enchanted Hunters

2. 342 (The answer to a question on the test)

3. In looking through the latter volume, I was treated last night to one of those dazzling coincidences that logicians loathe and poets love.

4. pg. 9, You can always count on a murderer for a what type of prose style? Fancy

5. Memorize the last line of the book (Lolita).

6. pg. 437, What does Nabokov think he was really born as? A Landscape Painter

7. Who can recognize a nymphet? An artist and a madman

8. What is Nabokov plagued by and what is it? Synisthesia

9. What man with a smudge mustache does Clare Quilty resemble? Charlie Chaplin, Uncle Trap, Adolf Hitler

10. Humbert is to Quilty, as the Reader is to Nabokov.

11. What does Nabokov think about sleep? Repulsive because you are parting with consciousness.

12. Dolores (Mater Dolorosa – Mother of Sorrows)

13. What are the names of Jean Farlows dogs? Cavall and Melampus

14. How is the story of Actaeon and Diana significant to Lolita? Humbert – Hunter, Lolita – Forbidden Goddess

15. What are four things all good readers should have, according to Nabokov? Memory, Imagination, Artistic Sense, and a Dictionary

16. What are the three things that every author should be, according to Nabokov? Storyteller, Teacher, and Enchanter

17. James the Rats Blog (read it)

18. What color is the ball that the cocker spaniel in the Enchanted Hunter is playing with? Red

19. Describe Humbert's forearms in two words? Hairy, Masculine

20. Waterproof

21. Name one of the plays written by Clare Quilty. The Little Nymph, The Lady that Loved Lightning, Fatherly Love, The Strange Mushrooms

22. How did Charlotte Haze die? Hit by a car, driven by ?(must know)

23. “reality”

24. Know the two words that will describe how Humbert's mother died. “picnic, lightning”

25. What is the difference between parody and satire? Satire is a lesson, Parody is a game

26. In “Speak, Memory”, what did Nabokov's mother like to collect from the woods? Mushrooms

27. What is the order of Lolita's favorite type of movies? Musicals, Underworlders, Westerners

28. Who is Jutting Jaw? Dick Tracy

29. Lolita, Don Quixote, and The French Lieutenant's Woman are all examples of metafiction.

30. What type of car did Maxonovich, the man who stole away Humbert's first wife, Valeria, drive?A taxi

31. What parts of Lolita always come back to Nabokov?The Casbeme Barber, Mr. Taxovich, Class List, Lolita playing Tennis

32. The very geometry of reality is what Lolita seemed to represent when she was playing tennis.

33. pg. 95 of “Speak, Memory” -The imitated behavior of butterflies – Darwin could not explain this in his theory's

34. What are Humbert's age regulations for a nymphet? 9-14

35. pg. 33, What regions are nymphets not found in? “The Polar Regions”