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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) 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.

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

3. How does Francoise feel when he watches the cavalry march past his yard?
(a) She feels proud.
(b) She feels angry.
(c) She feels happy.
(d) She feels sad.

4. When does the narrator say his mother did not kiss him goodnight as a small child?
(a) When his father was late.
(b) When he had gotten in trouble.
(c) When she had guests.
(d) When it was raining.

5. What religion does Blotch practice?
(a) Luthern.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Judiasm.
(d) Buddism.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Combray," what writer does M. Swann know?

2. Who thinks that the narrator should be allowed time to play outside as a boy?

3. Why does the narrator's mother sleep in his room in "Overture"?

4. Why does Eulalie visit Aunt Leonie every week?

5. In "Combray," where does the narrator often read?

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