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