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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 restaurant that is open late.
(b) A place the narrator visited when he was younger.
(c) The boarding house were the narrator stays.
(d) The narrator's aunt's business.

2. How does Aunt Leonie imagine her family dying when she is very bored in "Combray"?
(a) Disease.
(b) Drowning.
(c) In a fire.
(d) A robbery.

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

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

5. What does the narrator dream about when he walks on Guermantes Way?
(a) Making a good living.
(b) Being accepted by the Guermantes.
(c) Becoming a famous writer.
(d) Meeting a pretty girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the narrator visit Combray?

2. What happened at Combray to make the narrator appreciate art?

3. What often happens to the narrator during the night in "Overture"?

4. What art does M. Vinteuil dabble in?

5. In "Overture," what does the narrator say has "intellectual profit"?

(see the answer key)

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