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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator give Albertine the first time he meets her?
2. Who visits the narrator's grandmother alone in her room in "Guermantes Way, Part I continued"?
3. Who does the narrator pretend to be interested in when he really likes Albertine?
4. What does Rachel discuss that makes the narrator find her "malicious" in "Guermantes Way, Part I"?
5. What does Elstir do to help the narrator meet Albertine?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens the first time the narrator meets Albertine?
2. What happens when the narrator runs into Professor E in "Guermantes Way, Part I continued"?
3. In "Place-Names: The Place, Part II," what happens when Saint-Loup and the narrator dine with the Bloch family?
4. What upsets the narrator about his stay in the hotel in Balbec?
5. Why does the narrator want Saint-Loup to talk to Mme. Guermantes in "Guermantes Way, Part I"?
6. What treatments are recommended for the grandmother in "Guermantes Way, Part I continued"?
7. What happens the first time the narrator meets Marquise Robert de Saint-Loup?
8. What does the narrator do the first time he meets Gisele?
9. How does the narrator feel about the people in Balbec?
10. What does Francoise do while in Balbec?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is Paris a character in this novel? How do the characters respond to the city of Paris? What does Paris represent and embody? How does going to Paris and leaving Paris help to develop the novel?
Essay Topic 2
What is so significant about the implied death of M. Swann? Why has the author chosen to end the novel this way? What does this mean for the narrator and the plot in general?
Essay Topic 3
How does the narrator's relationship with Gilberte mirror the relationship between M. Swann and Odette? Where do they differ? What is the literary value in paralleling these relationships? What is the lesson the author creates?
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