In Search of Lost Time - Quiz
A) Ten volumes B) Five volumes C) Three volumes D) Seven volumes
A) André Gide B) Marcel Proust C) D. J. Enright D) Edmund White
A) Political revolution B) Involuntary memory C) Scientific discovery D) Maritime exploration
A) The Search for Time B) The Past Recaptured C) Swann's Way D) Remembrance of Things Past
A) D. J. Enright B) C. K. Scott Moncrieff C) Terence Kilmartin D) Edmund White
A) André Gide and Jacques Rivière B) C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin C) Edmund White and D. J. Enright D) Marcel Proust and Robert Proust
A) Late 19th-century and early 20th-century high-society France B) Post-WWII modern France C) Renaissance France D) Early 18th-century peasant France
A) 1896 B) 1913 C) 1909 D) 1922
A) A fire at his publisher's office B) The outbreak of World War I C) Financial bankruptcy D) His final illness
A) Terence Kilmartin B) André Gide C) His brother Robert D) Edmund White
A) 1900 and 1910 B) 1918 and 1930 C) 1920 and 1940 D) 1913 and 1927
A) Ollendorff B) Fasquelle C) Gallimard D) Éditions Grasset
A) La Fugitive B) Contre Sainte-Beuve C) Jean Santeuil D) Du côté de chez Swann
A) Un Amour de Swann B) Contre Sainte-Beuve C) Le Temps retrouvé D) Jean Santeuil
A) D. J. Enright B) Edmund White C) C. K. Scott Moncrieff D) André Gide
A) Most translated novel B) Best-selling novel C) Longest novel D) Oldest manuscript
A) 1913 B) 1920 C) 1918 D) 1909
A) Gallimard B) La Pléiade C) Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF) D) Éditions Grasset
A) Jacques Rivière B) Terence Kilmartin C) André Gide D) Robert Proust
A) Two parts B) Four parts C) Seven parts D) Three parts
A) Un Amour de Swann B) Overture C) Noms de pays: le nom D) Combray I
A) The death of Albertine episode B) The madeleine cake episode C) The war in Paris episode D) The garden stroll episode
A) Translated the book into English B) Published a public critique of the book C) Wrote to Proust to apologise and offer congratulations D) Purchased the rights to the manuscript
A) Fasquelle B) Gallimard C) Grasset D) Ollendorff
A) 1920 B) 30 November 1918 C) 1922 D) 1913
A) Loss of the manuscript B) A dispute with Grasset C) The onset of World War I D) Proust's sudden illness
A) Nobel Prize in Literature B) Pulitzer Prize C) Booker Prize D) Prix Goncourt
A) 1920 and 1921 B) 1913 and 1914 C) 1925 and 1927 D) 1922 and 1923
A) At the beginning of La Prisonnière B) As a standalone pamphlet in 1913 C) In the middle of Swann's Way D) At the end of Le Côté de Guermantes II
A) 1922 B) 1920 C) 1918 D) 1925
A) It was the last volume over which Proust supervised publication before his death B) It was the only volume rejected by all publishers C) It was the first volume he ever wrote D) It was written entirely during World War I
A) André Gide B) D. J. Enright C) Jacques Rivière D) Edmund White
A) Le Côté de Guermantes B) le Roman d'Albertine C) Un Amour de Swann D) Combray
A) It was written before Swann's Way B) It is the first of Proust's books published posthumously C) It is the only volume with no characters D) It won the Prix Goncourt
A) As part of Jean Santeuil B) As the third volume of Sodome et Gomorrhe C) As a standalone novella D) As the first part of The Guermantes Way
A) 1925 B) 1923 C) 1920 D) 1927
A) The Fugitive B) Finding Time Again C) Swann's Way D) The Guermantes Way
A) To match the English translation by D. J. Enright B) Because it was the original working title from 1909 C) To prevent it from being confused with Rabindranath Tagore's La Fugitive D) To honor Proust's brother Robert
A) The NRF edition of 1922 B) The Grasset edition of 1925 C) The first authoritative 'La Pléiade' edition in 1954 D) The second 'La Pléiade' edition in 1987
A) C. K. Scott Moncrieff B) Suzy Mante-Proust C) Odette de Crécy D) Rabindranath Tagore
A) A complete rewrite of the ending B) The addition of 200 pages C) The deletion of approximately 150 pages D) The removal of the Albertine character entirely
A) Swann's Way B) The Prisoner C) Finding Time Again D) The Fugitive
A) During Proust's final illness in autumn 1922 B) After the publication of The Fugitive C) While Proust served in World War I D) At the same time as Swann's Way
A) The French Revolution B) The Franco-Prussian War C) Paris during the First World War D) The construction of the Eiffel Tower
A) Gérard Genette B) Charles Swann C) Legrandin D) Bergotte
A) 1893 B) 1878 C) 1883 D) 1903
A) Balbec B) Venice C) Paris D) Combray
A) Odette B) Françoise C) Gilberte D) Léonie
A) Mme. Swann B) Odette de Crécy C) Mme. de Guermantes D) The text does not name her
A) Legrandin B) Forcheville C) Bloch D) Swann
A) Françoise B) Léonie C) Gilberte D) Odette
A) Bloch B) Bergotte C) Cottard D) Legrandin
A) Mme. de Guermantes B) Odette de Crécy C) Mlle. Vinteuil D) Gilberte Swann
A) Mme. de Guermantes B) Aunt Léonie C) Mme. Swann D) Mme. Verdurin
A) A theater tune by la Berma B) An opera by Bergotte C) A sonata by Vinteuil featuring a 'little phrase' D) A country song from Combray
A) Brichot B) Saniette C) M. Biche D) Cottard
A) Saniette B) M. Biche C) Cottard D) Brichot
A) Saniette B) Cottard C) Brichot D) M. Biche
A) Academic B) Writer C) Doctor D) Painter
A) A trip to Venice B) A country walk along the Méséglise way C) A society concert D) A theater to see la Berma
A) Champs-Élysées B) The streets near the Vinteuil home C) The river banks of Combray D) The Verdurin courtyard
A) Doctor B) Writer C) Diplomat D) Painter
A) Berma B) Rachel C) Mme. Swann D) Albertine
A) He loses his glasses B) He breaks his arm C) He has an orgasm D) He finds a lost letter
A) Universally banned B) Extremely powerful C) Inferior social status D) Royally revered
A) Bergotte B) Norpois C) Elstir D) Charlus
A) Letters B) Flowers C) Books D) Paintings
A) Rosemonde B) Albertine C) Andrée D) Gisèle
A) Venice B) Balbec C) Paris D) Combray
A) The hotel owner B) The lift operator C) The discreet headwaiter D) The painter
A) A distant cousin B) An old friend C) A former school teacher D) A hostile neighbor
A) A painter B) A writer C) A prostitute D) An actress
A) M. de Charlus B) M. Biche C) M. de Norpois D) M. de Cambremer
A) Bloch B) Charlus C) Saint-Loup D) Elstir
A) Bergotte B) Jupien C) Legrandin D) Norpois
A) The Dreyfus Affair B) The Panama Scandal C) The Fashoda Incident D) The Boulanger Affair
A) Saint-Loup B) Charlus C) Adolphe D) Morel
A) An asthma attack B) A heart attack C) A fainting spell from heat D) A stroke
A) Gilberte B) Jupien's niece C) The Stermaria daughter D) Albertine
A) Morel B) Bloch C) Charlus D) Saint-Loup
A) Brichot B) Vaugoubert C) Cottard D) Norpois
A) The Swanns B) The Cambremers C) The Villeparisis D) The Guermantes
A) A forged arrest warrant B) A fake duel C) A financial bribe D) A blackmail letter
A) The Courvoisiers B) The Cambremers C) The Villeparisis D) The Verdurins
A) A wealthy art collector B) A disgraced politician C) A retired military general D) A celebrated doctor
A) The Guermantes residence B) A house by the Trocadéro C) A hotel in Venice D) The Narrator's family apartment
A) Charlus B) Mme. Verdurin C) Bergotte D) The Narrator's absent mother
A) Léa B) Mlle. Vinteuil C) Andrée D) Jupien's niece
A) The Trocadéro B) Venice C) The Verdurins D) Jupien's shop
A) The Trocadéro B) The Guermantes' house C) A trip with the chauffeur D) Her family home
A) Balbec B) Combray C) The Trocadéro D) Venice
A) Bergotte's B) Vinteuil's C) Swann's D) Charlus's
A) Aimé B) Saint-Loup C) Legrandin D) Jupien
A) A male brothel B) An opium den C) An underground gambling club D) A secret political headquarters
A) Rachel B) Andrée C) Albertine D) Gilberte
A) Sensory experiences B) Character names C) The outward plot D) Psychological depth
A) John Ruskin B) Sigmund Freud C) Gilles Deleuze D) Roger Shattuck
A) Sigmund Freud B) Karl Marx C) Friedrich Nietzsche D) Carl Jung
A) Mallarmé B) Baudelaire C) Ruskin D) Rimbaud
A) Romantic platonism B) Empiricism C) Utilitarianism D) Existentialism |
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