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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the narrator contemplate often while in Combray?
(a) Art.
(b) Music.
(c) Literature.
(d) All of these.

2. Why did the main character hate when there were guests at his house?
(a) They drank his whiskey.
(b) They mocked his small stature.
(c) They took up his mother's time.
(d) They used his bedroom.

3. What did the main character say he was surrounded by as a child?
(a) Celebrities.
(b) Children.
(c) Servants.
(d) Adults.

4. What did the narrator say Eulalie was good at?
(a) Being pretty.
(b) Gossiping.
(c) Keeping secrets.
(d) Singing.

5. Who did the main character miss while he slept?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His sister.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was different on Saturdays in Combray than the other days?

2. Who lived with the family member of the narrator in Combray?

3. Which family member incited the most fear in the main character when he was a boy?

4. How did the narrator feel about Combray?

5. Who did the narrator walk with in Combray?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Grandmother treat Charles Swann?

2. Why was the narrator forbidden from going to his Uncle Adolphe's house?

3. What did the narrator do after reading one book by Bergotte?

4. Why did the narrator's great aunt rarely leave her house?

5. Why was Great Aunt always happy when the narrator's family would visit her?

6. What dreams were recurring to the narrator as a child?

7. What did the narrator want to be when he grew up and why?

8. What does this book consist of?

9. What was the boy at the beginning of the book thinking about?

10. How did Mama treat Francois in Combray?

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