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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Place-Names: The Name.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the narrator contemplate often while in Combray?
(a) Literature.
(b) Music.
(c) All of these.
(d) Art.

2. Who stopped liking Swann after Odette rejected him?
(a) The Verdurins.
(b) Paul.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Bergotte.

3. What did the narrator compare works of art to in Combray?
(a) The landscapes.
(b) His imagination.
(c) The people in Combray.
(d) All of these.

4. What did the meal with the main character's mother at the beginning of the book make him think of?
(a) His time with Swann.
(b) His school house.
(c) His art collection.
(d) His summer home.

5. What calmed the main character's nighttime fears as a child?
(a) A special song.
(b) The sound of wind.
(c) His mother's kisses.
(d) A dim candle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think of when describing Balbec?

2. How did the narrator feel when Gilberte showed signs of getting closer to him?

3. Why was the bad treatment to Swann ironic?

4. What country is Combray in?

5. Who passed away while the narrator was a young boy?

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