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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Combray.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mme. de Saint-Loup's house?
(a) The narrator's aunt's business.
(b) A place the narrator visited when he was younger.
(c) The boarding house were the narrator stays.
(d) A restaurant that is open late.

2. In "Overture," what does the narrator say has "intellectual profit"?
(a) His father's speeches.
(b) His mother's writing.
(c) His grandmother's gifts.
(d) His grandfather's jokes.

3. Why does the narrator's mother sleep in his room in "Overture"?
(a) She feels bad for not kissing him goodnight.
(b) The narrator requests it.
(c) His father sees that he is upset.
(d) The narrator is ill.

4. Who thinks that the narrator should be allowed time to play outside as a boy?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

5. In "Overture," what does the narrator's grandmother buy him for his birthday?
(a) Books.
(b) She gives him money.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Toys.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the narrator say his mother did not kiss him goodnight as a small child?

2. What does Gilberte do the first time the narrator sees her?

3. Why does Eulalie visit Aunt Leonie every week?

4. When does the narrator send his mother a note in "Overture"?

5. What art does M. Vinteuil dabble in?

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