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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. Who owned the house in Combray?

2. What did the meal with the main character's mother at the beginning of the book make him think of?

3. What did the narrator start doing after he met Charles' daughter?

4. What is this book composed of?

5. Who did the narrator walk with in Combray?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did the main character hate about going to bed as a boy?

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

5. What caused Charles Swann to be unwelcome in the narrator's home?

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

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

8. What were the streets in Combray named after?

9. Why was the way Grandmother treated Charles Swann so ironic?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are many characters in this book who were manipulated and persuaded to do things they did not want to do. What are some of these instances, and how were those characters affected by the manipulation?

Essay Topic 2

How did the relationship between the narrator and his mother affect his life and personality?

Essay Topic 3

Gilberte was a minor character in this book who made a huge impact on the plot. What was her impact, and how would the plot have been altered had she not been included in the story line?

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