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

2. What about Gilberte did the narrator hope to make a union with?
(a) All of these.
(b) Her mind.
(c) Her body.
(d) Her dreams.

3. What does the narrator say drew him to Gilberte?
(a) She was in the higher class.
(b) She was beautiful.
(c) She was not at all like him.
(d) She reminded him of some of his childhood dreams.

4. What grew in Odette after she rejected Swann?
(a) Her confidence.
(b) Her love.
(c) Her beauty.
(d) Her happiness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the narrator living when a family member passed away?

2. What did the narrator realize when Gilberte stopped playing with him?

3. What does the narrator want to taste in different places?

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

5. Why did Odette ask for something after Swann watched her in the rain?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Francoise become the narrator's governess?

2. What was interesting about Gilberte knowing Swann's name?

3. Why does the narrator say he prefers his dreams to reality?

4. What did Swann ask Odette after he stood in the rain watching her one night?

5. What kind of relationship did the narrator imagine existed between him and Gilberte?

6. How does the narrator say he wants to travel?

7. What caused Swann to want to propose to Odette?

8. What does the narrator not like about traveling?

9. What did Swann realize after standing in the rain watching Odette one night?

10. Who were the Verdurins and what did they do?

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