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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 makes Francoise change her opinion of Saint-Loup?

2. What does Professor E say about the narrator's grandmother's condition in "Guermantes Way, Part I continued"?

3. What does the narrator's grandmother do when the narrator suffers a fever attack in "Place-Names: The Place, Part II"?

4. Why does the narrator's grandmother insist they rest during their trip to Balbec?

5. Where does Mme. de Villeparisis take the narrator in "Place-Names: The Place, Part II"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What treatments are recommended for the grandmother in "Guermantes Way, Part I continued"?

2. In "Place-Names: The Place, Part II," what happens when Saint-Loup and the narrator dine with the Bloch family?

3. While in Balbec, how does Francoise react to Mme. de Villeparisis?

4. What happens when Saint-Loup's mother arrives at Mme. de Villeparisis's party?

5. What does Francoise do while in Balbec?

6. In "Place-Names: The Place, Part II," how does the narrator interact with the local Balbec girls?

7. What happens when Bloch accompanies the narrator to see Saint-Loup to his train in "Seascape, with Frieze of Girls"?

8. How does M. de Charlus feel about the narrator's grandmother in "Place-Names: The Place, Part II"?

9. Why does the narrator want Saint-Loup to talk to Mme. Guermantes in "Guermantes Way, Part I"?

10. What happens the first time the narrator meets Albertine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the narrator's relationship with Gilberte mirror the relationship between M. Swann and Odette? Where do they differ? What is the literary value in paralleling these relationships? What is the lesson the author creates?

Essay Topic 2

How is Paris a character in this novel? How do the characters respond to the city of Paris? What does Paris represent and embody? How does going to Paris and leaving Paris help to develop the novel?

Essay Topic 3

After a period of day-dreaming about Mme. Guermantes, the narrator becomes disillusioned with her. Follow the chain of events that takes the narrator from love to indifference. What does this change mean for the narrator? What does is represent in the larger picture of his society?

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