- multiple choice
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- short answer
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- What was the only hotel that HH and Lo stayed in part 1? ~The Enchanted Hunters
- What is the significance of #342? ~Address of Haze home in Ramsdale, room # at EH, total number of hotels that HH and Lo stayed in
- Pg 31 "logicians _______ and poets _______?" ~Loath, love
- pg 9 "you can always count on a murderer for _____ prose style" ~fancy
- Memorize last lines: "And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita"
- pg 347 What does VN think he was truly born as? ~a landscape painter
- Who can recognize a nymphet? ~an artist or a madman
- Life imitates_______, more than _________ imitates life. ~art
- synesthesia and speak, memory? ~when your senses are confused- you see sounds, or taste colors- VN suffered from this
- What mustached man does Quilty resemble? ~Charlie Chaplin, Uncle Trapp, Hitler
- Humbert is to _______, as ________ is to Nabokov. ~Quilty, the reader
- What do Nabokov and HH think about sleep? ~they are both unspeakably repulsed by parting with consciousness
- What does the name Dolores mean? ~sorrow
- Mater Dolorosa ~ Lolita is the virgin mary?
- Names of Jane Farllows dogs? ~Cavall and Melampus
- What are the 4 things all good readers should have, according to VN? ~memory, imagination, artistic sense, a dictionary
- Most important things that every author should be? ~storyteller, teacher and most importantly an enchanter
- What color is Quilty's cocker spaniel's ball? ~red
- Describe HH's forearms in 2 words. ~Hairy, masculine
- What word is HH's greatest clue that Quilty took Lolita? ~waterproof
- What do the story of Actaeon and Lolita have in common? ~Humbert – Hunter, Lolita – Forbidden Goddess
- Name one of the plays that was written by Clare Quilty. ~The Little Nymph, The Lady that Loved Lightening, Fatherly Love, and The Strange Mushroom
- Pg 98 Who killed Charlotte? ~Frederick Beale Jr
- How did HH's mother die? ~picnic, lightening
- What is the difference between parody and satire? ~p= teaches lessons, s= a game
- In Speak, Memory what did VN's mom like to collect from the woods? ~ mushrooms
- Pg 170 What is the order of Lo's favorite movies? ~Musicals, underworlders, westerners
- Who is 'jutting jaw'? ~Dick Tracey
- "reality" ~always needs quotations because there is no reality
- What do the French Lt's Woman, Lolita, and Don Quixote have in common? ~they are all works of metafiction
- What kind of car did Maxonovich, who stole away HH's first wife, Valeria, drive? ~a taxi
- What are the passages that VN are super proud of? ~class list, kasbeam barber, taxovich and Lo playing tennis
- Geometry of reality is: ~Lo playing tennis
- What does Speak, Memory disprove of Darwins natural selection? ~butterflies imitative behaviors have no practical purpose, it's simply aesthetic
- HH's age requirements for a nymphet? ~between 9 and 14 yrs old
- What regions are nymphets not found? ~polar regions
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