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The Madeleine ---

Quiz by Lama Alshami

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  • Q1
    What is the overall effect of the sensory language in "The Madeleine"?
    It enables the reader to visualize the scene that the narrator describes and to connect to the narrator's thoughts and feelings.
    It assists the narrator in describing the logical process he uses to uncover his hidden memories.
    It demonstrates the narrator's willingness to expend great effort in discovering the memories prompted by the madeleine and tea.
    It explains to the reader why the narrator is so interested in resolving the puzzle of the madeleine and tea.
    60s
  • Q2
    What does the simile about theater scenery most clearly suggest? (And once I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime-flowers, which my aunt used to give me... immediately the old grey house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like the scenery of a theater to attach itself to the little pavilion, opening on to the garden, which had been built out behind it for my parents..)
    the scene the narrator recalls is very beautiful
    The childhood scene descends rapidly on the narrator
    The narrator's aunt was acting a part
    the narrator's experience is artificial and misleading
    60s

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