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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the name of the librarian at Pnin's college?
(a) Mrs. Thayer.
(b) Mrs. Clements.
(c) Mrs. Bliss.
(d) Mrs. Wind.
2. What does the librarian tell Pnin in Chapter 3 that he refuses to take any responsibility for?
(a) Pnin is adamant that he did not rip one of the pages in the book.
(b) Pnin refuses to pay his late fee.
(c) Pnin is adamant that he did not cause water damage to the book.
(d) Pnin discovers that he is the one who requested the book.
3. In what year did Pnin leave his home country?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1912.
4. 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) Different languages.
(c) American customs.
(d) Complicated mathematic problems.
5. What is Pnin dependent on using when he reaches the town in Chapter 1?
(a) His inhaler.
(b) His lap top.
(c) A prepared text.
(d) A dictionary.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 2, whom does Mrs. Clements invite Pnin to meet which he declines?
2. What does Pnin usually find wrong in the places that he lives?
3. How old was Pnin when he left his home country?
4. What does Pnin ask the librarian in Chapter 3?
5. At the end of chapter 1, what poem does Pnin recall reciting in front of the entire school when he was a child?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Pnin seek out Oleg Komarov in Chapter 3?
2. What happens when Pnin tries to get his suitcase back from the man at the station in Chapter 1?
3. What happens to Pnin at the bus station that has been happening since he was a child?
4. Where is Pnin headed at the beginning of Chapter 1?
5. Why has the daughter of Laurence and Joan Clements left home, and what do they now have available?
6. What happens when Pnin calls the Clementses to rent the room in their house?
7. How does Laurence Clements feel about Pnin staying in his house?
8. Why is Pnin so horrified at the possibility of losing his suitcase in Chapter 1?
9. Why has Pnin always been a constant mover?
10. What does the library request of Pnin in Chapter 3?
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