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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Francoise change her opinion of Saint-Loup?
(a) She finds out he has a mistress.
(b) She reads his letter to the editor.
(c) She sees him hit a servant.
(d) She discovers he is a Republican.

2. In "Combray," where does the narrator often read?
(a) In the garden.
(b) At the dinner table.
(c) In his bedroom.
(d) Behind the couch.

3. What does Swann consider after hearing a song played on the piano at the Verdurin's?
(a) If he knows the composer.
(b) If he could play the song himself.
(c) If the song is any good.
(d) If he could write music.

4. Why must the narrator cancel his travel plans in "Place-Names"?
(a) Work.
(b) Lack of money.
(c) He starts school.
(d) Illness.

5. Where does Mme. de Villeparisis take the narrator in "Place-Names: The Place, Part II"?
(a) Restaurants.
(b) Bathing houses.
(c) Churches.
(d) The sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reputation of Marquise Robert de Saint-Loup?

2. What does the narrator long to see Berma do in "Mme. Swann at Home"?

3. What is Saint-Loup intolerant of?

4. In "Place-Names: The Place, Part II," what does M. de Charlus give the narrator before bed?

5. After Gilberte leaves, who does the narrator focus his attention on at the park in "Place-Names"?

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