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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) Complicated maps, tables, and schedules that are used to navigate train systems.
(b) American customs.
(c) Complicated mathematic problems.
(d) Different languages.

2. By what means is Pnin traveling at the beginning of the book?
(a) Train.
(b) Airplane.
(c) Car.
(d) Boat.

3. What does the professor, who Pnin decides to track down in Chapter 3, teach at the college?
(a) Chemistry.
(b) Biology.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Fine Arts.

4. What country did Pnin leave right before coming to America?
(a) France.
(b) Poland.
(c) Germany.
(d) Switzerland.

5. At the end of chapter 1, what poem does Pnin recall reciting in front of the entire school when he was a child?
(a) Mayakovsky's poems.
(b) Pasternak's poems.
(c) Brodsky's poems.
(d) Pushkin's poems.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Pnin traveling at the book opens?

2. How soon after Mrs. Clements tells Pnin he can stay at their house does Pnin arrive?

3. What is the name of the woman who introduces Pnin at the seminar?

4. Why did Liza pretend that she wanted to be back with Pnin even though she was carrying Dr. Wind's child?

5. Why was Pnin made to sit in his bed for weeks with nothing to do when he was a child?

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