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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Place-Names: The Place, Part II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator's mother refuse to ask about in "Mme. Swann at Home"?
(a) Aunt Leonie.
(b) Mme. Swann.
(c) Gilberte.
(d) M. Swann.

2. What made the narrator's family avoid Swann's Way?
(a) The crime along the path.
(b) The service fee.
(c) It was too long of a walk.
(d) Swann's marriage.

3. While in Balbec, what does the narrator offer a local girl who delivers a note for him?
(a) Five francs.
(b) A hug.
(c) Ten dollars.
(d) Dinner.

4. What does Mme. Swann do in "Place-Names" that causes people to talk?
(a) She wears short skirts.
(b) She travels alone.
(c) She meets new men.
(d) She pays her friends money.

5. Who does the narrator's mother say she does not want to know in the Swann family?
(a) M. Swann.
(b) Old man Swann.
(c) Mme. Swann.
(d) Gilberte Swann.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator buy a picture of for himself at the beginning of the new year in "Mme. Swann at Home"?

2. In "Place-Names," why does Gilberte tell the narrator she won't be around for long?

3. How does Francoise feel when he watches the cavalry march past his yard?

4. In "Mme. Swann at Home," what opinion does M. de Norpois have about Mme. Swann?

5. Who used to visit a house M. de Charlus discusses at dinner in Balbec with the narrator and his grandmother?

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