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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Like many people from his home country, with what does Pnin have a fascination?
(a) Different languages.
(b) American customs.
(c) Complicated maps, tables, and schedules that are used to navigate train systems.
(d) Complicated mathematic problems.

2. Why is Pnin traveling at the book opens?
(a) To deliver a lecture.
(b) To take a test.
(c) To perform in a play.
(d) To audit a class.

3. What does the librarian tell Pnin in Chapter 3 that he refuses to take any responsibility for?
(a) Pnin discovers that he is the one who requested the book.
(b) Pnin refuses to pay his late fee.
(c) Pnin is adamant that he did not rip one of the pages in the book.
(d) Pnin is adamant that he did not cause water damage to the book.

4. Why did Liza pretend that she wanted to be back with Pnin even though she was carrying Dr. Wind's child?
(a) She wanted Pnin to pay for the medical bills.
(b) She was using Pnin to help pay for her passage to the U.S.
(c) She wanted Pnin to buy her a house.
(d) She wanted to hurt Pnin.

5. In Chapter 2, Pnin comes downstairs to complain about some annoyances. What does he see a fellow professor doing at the party?
(a) Stealing silverware.
(b) Kissing Mrs. Clements.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Impersonating him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What abstract field does Pnin have no interest of getting into teaching?

2. Whom does Mrs. Clements tell she is looking to rent out her room?

3. In Chapter 3, how long has Pnin now been staying with the Clementses?

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

5. What happened right before Pnin left his home country?

(see the answer key)

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