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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Swann imagine as he watched Odette while standing in the rain?
(a) Her with other lovers.
(b) Killing her.
(c) Making love to her.
(d) Marrying her.

2. What was the owner of the Combray house obsessed with?
(a) His mistress.
(b) Her imaginary illnesses.
(c) His trust fund.
(d) The townspeople.

3. What does the narrator think towns should live up to?
(a) Their visitors.
(b) Their history.
(c) Their residents.
(d) Their names.

4. Why does the narrator prefer his dreams to reality?
(a) All of these.
(b) The dreams were private.
(c) The dreams were safer.
(d) The dreams were more beautiful.

5. What calmed the main character's nighttime fears as a child?
(a) The sound of wind.
(b) A special song.
(c) A dim candle.
(d) His mother's kisses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator like to gaze at while traveling?

2. How did the main character think bedrooms were supposed to feel?

3. What did the main character wonder about when he was sleeping at the beginning of the book?

4. What about Gilberte did the narrator hope to make a union with?

5. What did Odette invite Swann to when they first met?

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