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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 does the narrator say filled his life at the end of the book?
(a) Fantasies.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Hopes.
(d) Memories.

2. Where did the narrator see Gilberte for the second time?
(a) In a market.
(b) By a river.
(c) In a museum.
(d) A park.

3. What was the feeling often weighing on the narrator when he traveled?
(a) Lethargy.
(b) Anger.
(c) Disappointment.
(d) Fear.

4. How did Swann feel when he was rejected by Swann?
(a) He was relieved.
(b) He was devastated.
(c) He was indifferent.
(d) He was angry.

5. What surprises the narrator when he discusses Balbec?
(a) He has never been there.
(b) She had hated her time there.
(c) They had stayed at the same place.
(d) The memories are so different.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drove the narrator's family crazy when he fell for Gilberte?

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

3. How long did Swann stand in the rain watching Odette one night?

4. What was the narrator obsessed with before he fell in love with Gilberte?

5. Who did Swann's feeling for Odette remind the narrator of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator not like about traveling?

2. How does the novel end?

3. Who were the Verdurins and what did they do?

4. What kind of relationship did the narrator imagine existed between him and Gilberte?

5. What was Odette's occupation?

6. Why did Odette begin to avoid Swann?

7. Why does the narrator say he prefers his dreams to reality?

8. How does the narrator describe the way he fell in love?

9. What was the narrator doing when he fell in love with Gilberte?

10. What was Swann doing with his life before he met Odette?

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