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