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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Combray.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mme. de Saint-Loup's house?
(a) A place the narrator visited when he was younger.
(b) The boarding house were the narrator stays.
(c) The narrator's aunt's business.
(d) A restaurant that is open late.

2. Why does the narrator's mother sleep in his room in "Overture"?
(a) She feels bad for not kissing him goodnight.
(b) His father sees that he is upset.
(c) The narrator requests it.
(d) The narrator is ill.

3. What makes the narrator remember Combray as an adult?
(a) His grandmother's funeral.
(b) Drinking tea.
(c) Making coffee.
(d) Meeting M. Swann at the opera.

4. How does the narrator's family react to Uncle Adolphe's friends?
(a) They never meet them.
(b) They are mean to them.
(c) They disapprove.
(d) They love them.

5. In "Overture," what does the narrator say has "intellectual profit"?
(a) His grandmother's gifts.
(b) His father's speeches.
(c) His grandfather's jokes.
(d) His mother's writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the narrator send his mother a note in "Overture"?

2. Who thinks that the narrator should be allowed time to play outside as a boy?

3. What made the narrator's family avoid Swann's Way?

4. Which day of the week is dinner served early at Combray?

5. What does the narrator's great-aunt Leonie brag about in "Combray"?

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