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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Odette ask for something after Swann watched her in the rain?
(a) She wanted to move away.
(b) She wanted him back.
(c) She wanted to say goodbye.
(d) She wanted to take a trip alone.

2. Who did Swann's feeling for Odette remind the narrator of?
(a) His father.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) Himself.
(d) His Uncle.

3. What kind of friends did the Verdurins like to have?
(a) Eclectic.
(b) Young.
(c) Older.
(d) Wealthy.

4. What senses remind the narrator of dreams?
(a) Sight and smell.
(b) Touch and smell.
(c) Sound and sight.
(d) Touch and taste.

5. What did Odette invite Swann to when they first met?
(a) The ballet.
(b) The theater.
(c) A dinner party.
(d) A coffee shop.

6. How did Swann resolve his situation with Odette?
(a) He paid for her to move away.
(b) He got a new job in Combray.
(c) He proposed to her.
(d) He rejected her.

7. Where did the narrator see Gilberte for the second time?
(a) A park.
(b) By a river.
(c) In a market.
(d) In a museum.

8. How did Swann spend his time in Paris?
(a) All of these.
(b) Going to dinner.
(c) Seducing women.
(d) Attending the opera.

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

10. What did Swann send to Odette after he was rejected?
(a) Money and gifts.
(b) A portrait of her.
(c) The gifts she gave him.
(d) Some of her belongings.

11. Who did Odette mostly work for?
(a) Poor farmers.
(b) Children.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Older gentlemen.

12. What does the narrator worry about when considering travel?
(a) That the reality will not live up to his imagination.
(b) That nobody will know where he was.
(c) That he will get lost.
(d) That he will never find true love.

13. What surprises the narrator when he discusses Balbec?
(a) They had stayed at the same place.
(b) The memories are so different.
(c) He has never been there.
(d) She had hated her time there.

14. What was the narrator obsessed with before he fell in love with Gilberte?
(a) Money.
(b) Architecture.
(c) Art.
(d) Plays.

15. Why did Odette reject Swann?
(a) He was too old.
(b) She was too young.
(c) She was wooed by someone else.
(d) He was not rich enough.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe his governess?

2. What will the narrator have to abandon to travel the way he wants?

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

4. How does the narrator describe his life at the time of the death of a family member?

5. What did the narrator say left his life when Gilberte stopped playing with him?

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