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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was most precious to the main character about his mother?
(a) Her kisses.
(b) Her kind words.
(c) Her scent.
(d) Her face.

2. What expanded as the narrator walked in Combray?
(a) His desire.
(b) His love for Mama.
(c) His dreams.
(d) His imagination.

3. Where did the main character's family go on vacations?
(a) Marseilles.
(b) Combray.
(c) Versailles.
(d) Paris.

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

5. Why was the narrator forbidden from seeing someone in Combray?
(a) She was known to be engaged.
(b) He was a heavy drinker.
(c) She was not worthy to marry.
(d) He had courtesans at his home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who introduced Swann to the main character's family?

2. How did the main character describe Swann?

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

4. What is this book composed of?

5. What does the author say had a deep impact on reality?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the narrator forbidden from going to his Uncle Adolphe's house?

2. How did Mama treat Francois in Combray?

3. What was the narrator very protective of as a young boy?

4. Why did the narrator's great aunt rarely leave her house?

5. Why was the narrator surrounded by adults as a child, and what effect did this have on him?

6. What caused Charles Swann to be unwelcome in the narrator's home?

7. What happened one night when the narrator sent a note that he needed his mother?

8. What did Great Aunt do when she did not have any visitors?

9. What did Great Aunt suffer from?

10. Why was Great Aunt always happy when the narrator's family would visit her?

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