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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Combray.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the main character wonder about when he was sleeping at the beginning of the book?
(a) What his parents do.
(b) Where time goes.
(c) Where babies come from.
(d) Why he feels sad.

2. How did the narrator feel about Charles' daughter?
(a) He was afraid of her.
(b) He did not like her at all.
(c) He was enraptured with her.
(d) He was nervous around her.

3. What caused Swann to stop coming by the main character's house?
(a) His choice of wife.
(b) His trickery.
(c) His lost fortune.
(d) His treatment of the main character.

4. What did the narrator say he never did lightly?
(a) Expressed himself.
(b) Loved.
(c) Read.
(d) Confided in others.

5. What does the main character do as an adult when he can't sleep?
(a) Drinks some whiskey.
(b) Thinks of all the places he has been.
(c) Walks the streets.
(d) Writes in his journal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who discussed the narrator's favorite author with him?

2. What did the main character like to listen to as a child?

3. What did the narrator compare works of art to in Combray?

4. What did the narrator become interested in while in Combray?

5. What did the narrator say dominated the town of Combray?

(see the answer key)

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