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

2. What is the main character in this book called?
(a) The Main Character.
(b) The Narrator.
(c) The Boy.
(d) The Hero.

3. How does the narrator want to plan his travels?
(a) He wants the train to take him where it will.
(b) He wants women to tell him where to go.
(c) He wants his mother's ghost to lead him.
(d) He wants to drift at sea until ports are found.

4. Who was the narrator's favorite author?
(a) Bergotte.
(b) Poe.
(c) Goethe.
(d) Dickens.

5. How did the narrator feel when Gilberte showed signs of getting closer to him?
(a) He was shocked.
(b) All of these.
(c) He was scared.
(d) He was thrilled.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the main character surrounded by certain people as a child?

2. What grew in Odette after she rejected Swann?

3. Where does the narrator want to travel?

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

5. What was a huge joke with the narrator's parents in Combray?

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