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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Place-Names: The Name.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were all the streets in Combray named after?
(a) Birds.
(b) Countries.
(c) Saints.
(d) Presidents.

2. What obsessed Swann about Odette after she rejected him?
(a) Her thoughts.
(b) Her looks.
(c) All of these.
(d) Her behavior.

3. What was the owner of the Combray house obsessed with?
(a) His trust fund.
(b) His mistress.
(c) Her imaginary illnesses.
(d) The townspeople.

4. What did the main character wonder about when he was sleeping at the beginning of the book?
(a) Where time goes.
(b) Why he feels sad.
(c) Where babies come from.
(d) What his parents do.

5. What did the narrator say Swann's love was NOT?
(a) A feeling.
(b) An emotion.
(c) A permanence.
(d) An obsession.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was most precious to the main character about his mother?

2. What was Bergotte's occupation?

3. What did the narrator call Swann's version of love?

4. Why did Odette keep limited contact with Swann after she rejected him?

5. What kind of surroundings were near the vacation home of the main character?

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