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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 about the main character was easily bruised as a child?
(a) His knees.
(b) His arms.
(c) His ego.
(d) His spirit.

2. What did the main character eat with his mother at the beginning of the book?
(a) Pasta and wine.
(b) Tea and cake.
(c) Bread and cheese.
(d) Salad and water.

3. What did the meal with the main character's mother at the beginning of the book make him think of?
(a) His time with Swann.
(b) His school house.
(c) His summer home.
(d) His art collection.

4. How did the main character think bedrooms were supposed to feel?
(a) Warm and cozy.
(b) Dark and alluring.
(c) Safe and familiar.
(d) Bright and welcoming.

5. Which of these was NOT a walking route in Combray?
(a) Combray Way.
(b) Swann's Way.
(c) Guermantes Way.
(d) Meseglise Way.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the narrator feel about Combray?

2. What season did the main character's family take vacations?

3. What did the main character like to listen to as a child?

4. How did the main character meet Swann?

5. What did the narrator say Eulalie was good at?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Great Aunt do when she did not have any visitors?

2. What dreams were recurring to the narrator as a child?

3. What did the narrator want to be when he grew up and why?

4. What did the narrator look at when he began studying art?

5. Why was the narrator surrounded by adults as a child, and what effect did this have on him?

6. What caused Charles Swann to be unwelcome in the narrator's home?

7. What does this book consist of?

8. Why was the narrator forbidden from going to his Uncle Adolphe's house?

9. What were the streets in Combray named after?

10. What did the narrator start doing after first meeting Gilberte Swann?

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