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

2. What was the main character dreaming of at the beginning of the book?
(a) His home.
(b) Flying.
(c) Wakening.
(d) His mother.

3. Why did the main character hate when there were guests at his house?
(a) They mocked his small stature.
(b) They used his bedroom.
(c) They drank his whiskey.
(d) They took up his mother's time.

4. Who lived with the family member of the narrator in Combray?
(a) His wife.
(b) His mistress.
(c) Her college friends.
(d) Her servants.

5. Who was the narrator forbidden to see in Combray?
(a) Uncle Adolphe.
(b) Cousin William.
(c) Gilberte.
(d) Charles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was different on Saturdays in Combray than the other days?

2. Who did the main character say was a shadow of his mother?

3. How did the narrator meet Eulalie?

4. What did the main character call his mother?

5. How did the narrator feel when he was in Paris?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was intriguing to the narrator about Charles Swann?

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

6. How did Grandmother treat Charles Swann?

7. What did the narrator want to be when he grew up and why?

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

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

10. What did the narrator look at when he began studying art?

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