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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Swann often late to the Verdurin's parties in "Swann In Love"?
(a) Because he is seeing another girl.
(b) Because he picked up a second job.
(c) Because he doesn't care.
(d) Because he doesn't have a watch.

2. What does Mme. Swann do in "Place-Names" that causes people to talk?
(a) She travels alone.
(b) She pays her friends money.
(c) She wears short skirts.
(d) She meets new men.

3. Who visits the narrator's family most often when he is a young boy?
(a) Aunt Leonie.
(b) M. Swann.
(c) Marcel.
(d) Golo.

4. What does Gilberte do the first time the narrator sees her?
(a) Signals an insult.
(b) Waves in a friendly way.
(c) Hides.
(d) Call to her father.

5. What does the narrator admire most about the church in Combray?
(a) The way it looks.
(b) The choir.
(c) The messages of Sunday mass.
(d) The help they give the poor.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In "Overture," what does the narrator's father give him after dinner?

4. Where is Combray?

5. Swann tends to court what type of lady?

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