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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 narrator meet Eulalie?

2. Why would the main character cry when with his extended family?

3. What was the narrator doing when he met Charles' daughter?

4. What did the narrator say dominated the town of Combray?

5. What did the main character's mother allow him to do even when it was inappropriate?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Grandmother treat Charles Swann?

2. What does the narrator choose to do at the beginning of the book, as an adult, when he can not sleep?

3. What did Charles do when he saw the narrator reading one day?

4. What did the narrator look at when he began studying art?

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

6. What did the narrator call his parents and what does this reveal about them?

7. Why did the narrator hate to have house guests when he was a child?

8. How did Mama treat Francois in Combray?

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

10. Why did the narrator like Combray more than Paris?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are many secrets made, kept, and divulged in this book. What are some of these secrets, and how did their placement in the plot affect the course of the plot and the characters involved in the secrets?

Essay Topic 2

Training and education are topics of discussion in this book. Where do these topics appear in this book, and what effect do they have on the characters involved in those scenes?

Essay Topic 3

Despair is an emotion that affected a number of the characters in this book. Which characters were most affected by despair, and how did this change the course of the plot branches they were involved in?

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