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

2. Who did Swann's feeling for Odette remind the narrator of?
(a) His father.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) Himself.
(d) His Uncle.

3. How does the narrator want to travel?
(a) On a boat.
(b) By rail.
(c) By air.
(d) On foot.

4. What did Swann give Odette, hoping to get her back?
(a) Jewelery.
(b) Money.
(c) A train ticket.
(d) A poem.

5. What drove the narrator's family crazy when he fell for Gilberte?
(a) His questions about her family.
(b) His brooding over her.
(c) His drawings of her hanging around the house.
(d) His long walks through the park.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator like to gaze at while traveling?

2. What did the Verdurins like to do?

3. How did Odette get Swann to love her?

4. Who was the narrator's governess?

5. What does the narrator say drew him to Gilberte?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was interesting about Gilberte knowing Swann's name?

2. What does the narrator compare his style of living to?

3. What caused Swann to fall in love with Odette?

4. What caused Swann to want to propose to Odette?

5. What did Swann do after Odette rejected him?

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

7. How does the narrator say he wants to travel?

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

9. What was the nucleus?

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

(see the answer keys)

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