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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. Why did Gilberte stop playing with the narrator?
(a) She had a boyfriend.
(b) She went away to school.
(c) She went on visits with her mother.
(d) She got a job.

2. What kind of person did Swann stop seeing after he was rejected by Odette?
(a) Poor people.
(b) Wealthy people.
(c) Women.
(d) Children.

3. What did the Verdurins like to observe?
(a) The political movements.
(b) The local birds.
(c) The people in town.
(d) The behavior of their friends.

4. What does the narrator think towns should live up to?
(a) Their residents.
(b) Their names.
(c) Their visitors.
(d) Their history.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of friends did the Verdurins like to have?

2. Why does the narrator prefer his dreams to reality?

3. What does the narrator worry about when considering travel?

4. What did Swann send to Odette after he was rejected?

5. How did Odette get Swann to love her?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did the narrator say Swann's relationship with Odette reminded him of and why?

4. How does the novel end?

5. What does the narrator not like about traveling?

6. What did Swann realize after standing in the rain watching Odette one night?

7. What was the nucleus?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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