Pnin Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Pnin? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Who said, "Oh, he has splendid new teeth?"


Eric Wind
Liza Wind
Joan Clements
Mr. Clean
Q. Here's a fun exchange: "Why on earth," he fumed, "did you have to ask that fellow Blorenge, a mummy, a bore, one of the stucco pillars of education?" So, who's the fumer?


Joan Clements
Ann Blorenge
Mira
Laurence Clements
Q. Who tells this little story: "He asks: 'Are you anarchist?' I answer"—time out on the part of the narrator for a spell of cozy mute mirth—" 'First what do we understand under "Anarchism"? Anarchism practical, metaphysical, theoretical, mystical, abstractical, individual, social? When I was young/ I say, 'all this had for me signification/ So we had a very interesting discussion, in consequence of which I passed two whole weeks on Ellis Island?"


Cockerell
Laurence Clements
Pnin
Dr. Hagen
Q. Who said: "At least, I have sweetened the pill?"


Dr. Hagen
Blorenge
Pnin
Eric Wind
Q. Who said: "Was it a mysterious disease that none of his doctors had yet detected? My friend wondered, and I wonder, too?"


VN
Pnin
Nabokov
Blorenge