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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city did Pnin end up in 1919?
(a) Constantinople.
(b) London.
(c) Athens.
(d) Paris.

2. What does Pnin use in Chapter 1 that is five years old and, therefore, obsolete?
(a) A list.
(b) A schedule.
(c) A book.
(d) A map.

3. What is the name of the librarian at Pnin's college?
(a) Mrs. Wind.
(b) Mrs. Bliss.
(c) Mrs. Clements.
(d) Mrs. Thayer.

4. What was Liza's profession when she met Pnin?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A nurse.
(c) A waitress.
(d) A writer and medical student.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, who will replace Pnin's friend as department head?

2. What is one of the chief attractions of the party at the cabin?

3. For many years, what language have students not been particularly interested in learning?

4. Of what language is Pnin a professor?

5. What does the professor, who Pnin decides to track down in Chapter 3, teach at the college?

(see the answer key)

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