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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 calmed the main character's nighttime fears as a child?
(a) The sound of wind.
(b) A special song.
(c) His mother's kisses.
(d) A dim candle.

2. How did the narrator feel when he was in Paris?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Depressed.
(c) Moody.
(d) Happy.

3. Where would the main character listen to something he loved as a child?
(a) The train depot.
(b) The church.
(c) His grandmother's house.
(d) His home.

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

5. What kept the owner of the house in Combray stranded in the house?
(a) Her fear of public opinion.
(b) Her imaginary ailments.
(c) His affair.
(d) His bad knee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who discussed the narrator's favorite author with him?

2. What does the main character do as an adult when he can't sleep?

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

4. What did the narrator's aunt do during her days in Combray?

5. Who did the main character send a note to about needing his mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the narrator hate to have house guests when he was a child?

2. What was the boy at the beginning of the book thinking about?

3. Who was Eulalie, and what did she do for the narrator's family?

4. What did the narrator say Uncle Adolphe was overcome by?

5. What did the narrator do after reading one book by Bergotte?

6. How did the narrator fill his days in Combray?

7. What was intriguing to the narrator about Charles Swann?

8. Why did the narrator like Combray more than Paris?

9. What did the main character hate about going to bed as a boy?

10. What did Great Aunt suffer from?

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