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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. How did the main character describe the furniture in his childhood bedroom?

2. How did the main character describe Swann?

3. Where did the main character's family go on vacations?

4. Who was the narrator forbidden to see in Combray?

5. Where did the main character grow up?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened one night when the narrator sent a note that he needed his mother?

3. What was intriguing to the narrator about Charles Swann?

4. Why was the way Grandmother treated Charles Swann so ironic?

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

6. What did Great Aunt suffer from?

7. What was the narrator very protective of as a young boy?

8. Who was Eulalie, and what did she do for the narrator's family?

9. What did the narrator say Uncle Adolphe was overcome by?

10. What did the narrator start doing after first meeting Gilberte Swann?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the relationship between the narrator and his mother affect his life and personality?

Essay Topic 2

Maturity is a theme presented in a number of places and is manifested in a number of ways. Choose a few of these instances and compare and contrast them. How are they different in their manifestations of this sensitive theme?

Essay Topic 3

Marcel Proust presents the idea that there are two sides to every man. Choose three of the characters from the book and write about their dual natures and how this duality affected the characters around them.

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