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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 Swann give Odette, hoping to get her back?
(a) A poem.
(b) Jewelery.
(c) Money.
(d) A train ticket.

2. How did the owner of the Combray house keep abreast of the goings on in the town?
(a) Reading the paper.
(b) Getting gossip.
(c) Watching out the window.
(d) All of these.

3. 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.

4. What did Swann send to Odette after he was rejected?
(a) Some of her belongings.
(b) A portrait of her.
(c) The gifts she gave him.
(d) Money and gifts.

5. What does the narrator think of when describing Balbec?
(a) His vacations.
(b) His first love.
(c) His childhood.
(d) His future.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is this book composed of?

2. What never varied while the narrator was in Combray?

3. How often did the Verdurins like to see their group of friends?

4. What did the main character say brought Swann to his knees?

5. What did the narrator say Eulalie was good at?

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