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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Guermantes Way, Part I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Place-Names: The Place, Part II," how does the narrator feel when he runs into Bloch with Saint-Loup?
(a) Embarrassed.
(b) Ill.
(c) Proud.
(d) Nervous.

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

3. What does Elstir tell the narrator about the group of girls he sees in "Seascape, with Frieze of Girls"?
(a) They are a band.
(b) They are the daughters of merchants.
(c) They are from the university.
(d) They are the nieces of priests.

4. In "Combray," what writer does M. Swann know?
(a) Paris.
(b) Bergotte.
(c) Cure.
(d) Eulalie.

5. Whose autographed letters does the narrator's grandmother buy for Saint-Loup as a going away present?
(a) A painter.
(b) A dignitary.
(c) A philosopher.
(d) A pope.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Overture," what does the narrator's family do every time a guest comes over?

3. Why doesn't the narrator's mother visit Mlle. Vinteuil in "Combray"?

4. What does the narrator's grandmother do when the narrator suffers a fever attack in "Place-Names: The Place, Part II"?

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

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