Test 1 Study Guide

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1. What was the name of the only hotel that HH and Lolita stayed in part 1?
The Enchanted Hunters

2. What is the significance of the number 342?
a) The address of the Haze home
b) 342 hotels on the road trip
c) Their room number at the Enchanted Hunters

3. Nabokov talks about the instances that logicians loath and poets love. (pg.342)

4."You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. (pg. 9)

5. Memorize the last line of the book Lolita.
"And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita."

6. What does Nabokov think he was really born as?
A landscape painter (pg. 342)

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

8. What was Nabokov plagued by?
Synethesia (when your senses are confused. Nabokov heard colors)

9. What mustached man does Quilty resemble?
a) Adolf Hitler
b) Charlie Chaplin
c) Uncle Trap

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

11. What does Nabokov think about sleep?
He finds it unspeakably repulsive because you are parting with consciousness.

12. What is the formal name from which Lolita is derived?
Dolores (sorrows)

13. Mater Dolorosa: mother of sorrows

14. "Life imitates art more than art imitates life."

15. What are the names of Jean Farlow's dogs?
Cavall (King Arthur's hunting dog) and Melampus (one of Actaeon's dogs)

16. How is the story of Diana and Actaeon significant to Speak, Memory?
When Nabokov was young he came upon a pool with a number of young, and naked, girl(nymphets), similar to the scene in which Actaeon came upon Diana

17. What are the four things that all good readers should have?
1. memory
2. imagination
3. artistic sense
4. a dictionary

18. Three things that every author should be.
1. a story teller
2. a teacher (least important)
3. an enchanter (most important)

19. What color is Quilty's dog's ball?
red

20. Describe HH forearms in two words.
Hair and Masculine

21. What word comes to HH's mind when he finds out who took Lolita?
"Waterproof"

22. Name one of the plays that Clare Quilty wrote.
"The Little Nymph," "Fatherly Love," "The Strange Mushroom" and "The Lady that Loved Lightening"

23. Who drove the car that killed Charlotte Haze?
Frederick Beale Jr.

24. What are the two words used to describe how HH's mother died?
Picnic, Lightening

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

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 kind of movies? (pg. 170)
1. musicals
2. underworlders
3. westerners

28. Who is "Jutting Jaw"? Dick Tracy

29. "Reality" (according to Nabokov the word must have quotes around it)

30. Lolita, Don Quixote, and The French Lieutenant's Women are all examples of what?
Metafiction

31. What kind of car did Masonovich, the man who stole HH first wife, drive?
a taxi

32. Which passages are the ones that Nabokov says he is most proud of?
1. The Ramsdale Class list
2. The Creation of the character Taxivich
3. The Kasbeam Barber
4. Lolita playing tennis

33. What did Lolita seem to represent while playing tennis?
The very geometry of reality

34. What could Darwin not explain with respect to butterflies? (pg. 95)
Their imitative behavior (it is solely aesthetic)

35. What are HH's age regulations for a nymphet?
9-14 years old

36. What regions are nymphets not found in?
The polar regions

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