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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 does the narrator want to taste in different places?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Wine.
(c) Chocolate.
(d) Bread.

2. What makes the narrator feel life and pleasure?
(a) Getting on the rail.
(b) Sailing.
(c) Thinking of his mother.
(d) Writing.

3. How long did Swann stand in the rain watching Odette one night?
(a) 4 hours.
(b) 1 hour.
(c) 3 hours.
(d) 2 hours.

4. Who was with the narrator when he fell in love with Gilberte?
(a) His mother.
(b) His great aunt.
(c) His father.
(d) His governess.

5. What did the Verdurins call their group of friends?
(a) The nucleus.
(b) The ones.
(c) The group.
(d) The angels.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the narrator know when Gilberte got closer to him?

2. Who invited the narrator to join the group that Gilberte was in?

3. What did the narrator call Swann's version of love?

4. What did Swann concentrate on when Odette rejected him?

5. What does the narrator think of when describing Balbec?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Swann ask Odette after he stood in the rain watching her one night?

2. Why does the narrator say he prefers his dreams to reality?

3. What kind of relationship did the narrator imagine existed between him and Gilberte?

4. What was Odette's occupation?

5. What did Odette ask for that Swann refused to give to her?

6. How does the narrator describe the way he fell in love?

7. What was Swann doing with his life before he met Odette?

8. What did Swann do after Odette rejected him?

9. What did the narrator do in an effort to see Gilberts again?

10. How did Swann become involved with the nucleus?

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