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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 scent.
(b) Her face.
(c) Her kisses.
(d) Her kind words.

2. What did the main character eat with his mother at the beginning of the book?
(a) Bread and cheese.
(b) Salad and water.
(c) Tea and cake.
(d) Pasta and wine.

3. Why did the main character hate to sleep when he was a child?
(a) He felt like it wasted time.
(b) He didn't like the dark.
(c) He had bad dreams.
(d) He missed his mother.

4. Where did the main character grow up?
(a) Paris.
(b) Marseilles.
(c) Versailles.
(d) Cambry.

5. Why would the main character cry when with his extended family?
(a) All of these.
(b) He was very scared.
(c) He was very grateful.
(d) He was very sensitive.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did the main character send a note to about needing his mother?

3. What kept the owner of the house in Combray stranded in the house?

4. What kind of dreams did the main character have about women when he was a child?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the narrator do after reading one book by Bergotte?

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

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

4. What did Charles do when he saw the narrator reading one day?

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

6. What did the main character hate about going to bed as a boy?

7. What was the boy at the beginning of the book thinking about?

8. How did the narrator fill his days in Combray?

9. Why did the narrator like Combray more than Paris?

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

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