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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it about Victor that troubles his parents?
(a) He never talks and is very distant.
(b) He is peculiar; he is an exceptionally easy child.
(c) He gets into trouble a lot at school.
(d) He is always angry and they don't know why.

2. In Chapter 5, what do Pnin and the person he runs into before going on a swim talk about?
(a) The good times they had living together.
(b) The annoyances of life as a teacher.
(c) How good the food is.
(d) The time they went out years ago.

3. One day, in Chapter 3, Pnin finds the house completely to himself. Where have the Clementses gone?
(a) To visit Laurence's father.
(b) To visit Joan's mother.
(c) To visit their son Jacob.
(d) To visit their daughter Isabel.

4. Why does Pnin decide to track down a certain professor in Chapter 3?
(a) He wants to know whether he is the one who has requested his library book.
(b) He is angry that he requested his library book.
(c) He wants ask him a question about his lecture.
(d) He wants to see if he wants to go get lunch.

5. At the party in Chapter 5, who quickly changes the subject when Bolotov and Pnin begin to argue?
(a) Sophie.
(b) Varvara.
(c) Alena.
(d) Susan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Pnin born?

2. Why did Liza decide to send Victor to a particular school in Chapter 4?

3. In Chapter 6, what university does Pnin learn his friend tried to get him a position at?

4. Mrs. Clements was in the same city as Pnin in 1919, what was she doing there?

5. In Chapter 5, why does the artist who Pnin meets not being incredibly social?

(see the answer key)

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