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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reputation of Marquise Robert de Saint-Loup?
(a) He is a womanizer.
(b) He is violent.
(c) He is a fool.
(d) He is sloppy.

2. How does the narrator's grandmother embarrass the narrator in "Place-Names: The Place, Part II"?
(a) She hands her coat to the hotel manager.
(b) She insults Bergotte.
(c) She calls Mme. de Villeparisis by the wrong name.
(d) She makes the waiter return her dinner.

3. What does Albertine give the narrator as a gift when she returns from visiting her aunt?
(a) Cuff links.
(b) A card.
(c) A book.
(d) A pencil case.

4. Why can't the narrator say good-bye to Saint-Loup when he visits him in "Guermantes Way, Part I"?
(a) The narrator oversleeps.
(b) Saint-Loup is off with a woman.
(c) Saint-Loup is called to active duty.
(d) The narrator is angry with Saint-Loup.

5. What does Alix think of Mme. de Villeparisis's picture of the Duchesse?
(a) She thinks it's too large.
(b) She thinks it's too small.
(c) She thinks it's a fake.
(d) She thinks it's tacky.

6. Why does the narrator initially want to avoid Elstir?
(a) Elstir tells him to stay away.
(b) He thinks he might fall in love.
(c) Elstir isn't pretty enough.
(d) He is interested in other girls.

7. What does the narrator give Albertine the first time he meets her?
(a) A flower.
(b) A book.
(c) A photograph.
(d) A chocolate.

8. How do the narrator and his grandmother travel to Balbec in "Place-Names: The Place, Part I"?
(a) By train.
(b) By foot.
(c) By private car.
(d) By boat.

9. Where do the narrator and his grandmother visit Mme. de Sevigne in "Place-Names: The Place, Part I"?
(a) In Balbed.
(b) On their way to Balbec.
(c) On their way home from Balbec.
(d) In Paris, before they leave.

10. Who visits the narrator's grandmother alone in her room in "Guermantes Way, Part I continued"?
(a) Mme. Swann.
(b) M. de Guermantes.
(c) M. Swann.
(d) Saint-Loup.

11. Where does Gisele go to school?
(a) London.
(b) Florence.
(c) Paris.
(d) Balbec.

12. In "Guermantes Way, Part I continued," who does not visit the grandmother?
(a) Her brothers.
(b) Her friends.
(c) Her sisters.
(d) Her nieces.

13. Who does the narrator's grandmother feel Mme. de Villeparisis is connected to socially?
(a) The hotel staff.
(b) The Swanns.
(c) The Guermantes.
(d) The Stermarias.

14. Who does the narrator's mother request not visit the grandmother so often while she is ill?
(a) An aunt.
(b) An uncle.
(c) A cousin.
(d) Her step-sister.

15. What is Saint-Loup intolerant of?
(a) Strangers.
(b) Varying opinions.
(c) New literature.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time passes between "Place-names" and "Place-Names: The Place, Part I"?

2. In "Guermantes Way, Part I," what does Francoise warn the narrator about Mme. de Guermantes?

3. Why do the narrator and his family move into Hotel de Guermantes?

4. What does the narrator's grandmother say she believes one should never do on vacation?

5. How does the narrator's father believe Mme. de Villeparisis will be able to inspire the narrator's writing?

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