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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pnin like to put in the Clementses' washing machine?
(a) His socks.
(b) His shirts.
(c) Things that don't belong, like shoes.
(d) His pants.

2. In Chapter 5, whom does Pnin meet at the cabin who is an artist?
(a) Chateau.
(b) Varvara.
(c) Gramineev.
(d) Sophie.

3. In Chapter 5, whom does Pnin run into while getting ready to go for a swim?
(a) His old friend Chateau.
(b) Varvara.
(c) Susan.
(d) Laurence Clements.

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

5. At the end of Chapter 7, the narrator goes outside. Whom does he see drive by?
(a) Joan Clements.
(b) Liza Wind.
(c) Victor.
(d) Pnin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 5, who is the host of the party at the cabin?

3. How does Pnin's class size compare to other classes in the college?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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