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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. Why does Eulalie visit Aunt Leonie every week?
(a) She buys Leonie's cookies.
(b) Leonie gives her money.
(c) She owes Leonie money.
(d) M. Swann encourages her to make friends.

2. In "Place-Names," what happens the day the narrator fears Gilberte Swann will not come to play?
(a) There is a fight in the park.
(b) There is a train accident.
(c) It rains.
(d) It snows.

3. Why doesn't the narrator's mother visit Mlle. Vinteuil in "Combray"?
(a) She thinks the girl caused her father's death.
(b) She thinks the girl hates everyone.
(c) She thinks the girl is wicked.
(d) She thinks the girl stole her mother's money.

4. What does the narrator say happened to his belief in the elegance of women?
(a) It left with Gilberte and returned the next year.
(b) It is enhanced.
(c) It changes every day.
(d) It is gone.

5. Who helps to improve Mme. Swann's opinion of the narrator in "Mme. Swann at Home"?
(a) Gilberte.
(b) The narrator's mother.
(c) Uncle Adolphe.
(d) Dr. Cottard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gilberte send the narrator a copy of a Bergotte book?

2. In "Swann In Love," what does Swann say he is studying whenever he is with Odette?

3. In "Swann In Love," who does Swann refuse a dinner invitation from?

4. How does the narrator's grandmother embarrass the narrator in "Place-Names: The Place, Part II"?

5. Which day of the week is dinner served early at Combray?

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