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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 about the main character was easily bruised as a child?
(a) His knees.
(b) His arms.
(c) His ego.
(d) His spirit.

2. Why was the bad treatment to Swann ironic?
(a) He was higher class.
(b) He was rude to them as well.
(c) He enjoyed his time there.
(d) He was a good man.

3. What did the Verdurins like to observe?
(a) The people in town.
(b) The local birds.
(c) The political movements.
(d) The behavior of their friends.

4. What did Swann realize after watching Odette in the rain one night?
(a) He was at the wrong bar.
(b) She was not worth his time.
(c) He was looking at the wrong window.
(d) It was not Odette he was watching.

5. What does the narrator say filled his life at the end of the book?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Hopes.
(c) Memories.
(d) Fantasies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will the narrator have to abandon to travel the way he wants?

2. How did the narrator feel when he was in Combray?

3. Why was the narrator forbidden from seeing someone in Combray?

4. How did the narrator describe his walks through Combray?

5. What did the narrator say left his life when Gilberte stopped playing with him?

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