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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened at Combray to make the narrator appreciate art?
(a) Francoise got into a fight with another maid.
(b) A cat took care of another cat.
(c) A kitchen-maid got pregnant.
(d) His mother started collecting art.

2. What made the narrator's family avoid Swann's Way?
(a) The service fee.
(b) It was too long of a walk.
(c) The crime along the path.
(d) Swann's marriage.

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

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

5. How does the narrator's family react to Uncle Adolphe's friends?
(a) They never meet them.
(b) They love them.
(c) They are mean to them.
(d) They disapprove.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Francoise?

2. What does the narrator's "magic lantern" do?

3. How does Francoise feel when he watches the cavalry march past his yard?

4. In "Overture," what does the narrator's grandmother buy him for his birthday?

5. What art does M. Vinteuil dabble in?

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