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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pnin ask the librarian in Chapter 3?
(a) If he can request a new book.
(b) If he can hang on to the book a while longer.
(c) If she can tell him who requested the book.
(d) If they have any more books on the same subject.

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

3. In Chapter 6, what does Pnin do with his extra time since he doesn't have as many classes to teach?
(a) Independent research.
(b) Chat with other professors.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Eat.

4. Why does Pnin not use the detailed directions that were given to him to get to the cabin?
(a) He wants to use his new map.
(b) He wants to find the cabin by himself.
(c) He doesn't trust the person who gave him the directions.
(d) He decides to forgo them in favor of the advice of a local.

5. In Chapter 6, what country is the department head's replacement from?
(a) Russia.
(b) Germany.
(c) Australia.
(d) Austria.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Victor smell and hear at his school?

2. After everyone leaves Pnin's housewarming, what does he immediately begin to do?

3. Pnin and Victor had already been corresponding, what does Victor think of Pnin from his letters?

4. Why does Pnin decide to track down a certain professor in Chapter 3?

5. In Chapter 5, why do the host of the party and his wife have no children?

(see the answer key)

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