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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the main character dreaming of at the beginning of the book?

3. What about the main character was easily bruised as a child?

4. What caused Swann to stop coming by the main character's house?

5. Why was the main character surrounded by certain people as a child?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does this book consist of?

6. Who was Eulalie, and what did she do for the narrator's family?

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

8. Why was the narrator surrounded by adults as a child, and what effect did this have on him?

9. How did Grandmother treat Charles Swann?

10. How did the narrator differ from other boys his age?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Marcel Proust presents the idea that there are two sides to every man. Choose three of the characters from the book and write about their dual natures and how this duality affected the characters around them.

Essay Topic 2

Symbolism is a very prevalent literary device used by Marcel Proust. What are some of these symbols, and how does their presence affect the course of the plot?

Essay Topic 3

There are many secrets made, kept, and divulged in this book. What are some of these secrets, and how did their placement in the plot affect the course of the plot and the characters involved in the secrets?

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