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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Victor's art teacher encourage him to do?
(a) Exercise and expand his artistic abilities.
(b) To find another subject to be interested in.
(c) Enter an art competition.
(d) Drop all of his other subjects and concentrate on art.

2. What happens to Pnin, while he is discussing the poem in Chapter 3, which causes the class to laugh?
(a) He burps.
(b) He drops his glasses.
(c) He leans on a chair and falls over when it snaps under his weight.
(d) He trips over a student's leg.

3. When does Victor go to visit Pnin in Chapter 4?
(a) He fakes sick and then sneaks off.
(b) His school break.
(c) He cuts class.
(d) Over the Christmas holiday.

4. What is the name of the woman who introduces Pnin at the seminar?
(a) Janelle Cummings.
(b) Jane Corrinth.
(c) Judith Clyde.
(d) Janis Clements.

5. What is it about Victor that troubles his parents?
(a) He is peculiar; he is an exceptionally easy child.
(b) He never talks and is very distant.
(c) He is always angry and they don't know why.
(d) He gets into trouble a lot at school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helps Pnin to salvage his trip in Chapter 1?

2. Where does Pnin make his first stop in Chapter 1 while traveling?

3. What is the title of the book that Pnin is asked to bring back to the library in Chapter 3?

4. How does the man who runs Victor's school treat the children?

5. IIn Chapter 3, where have the Clementses gone to visit someone?

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