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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Proust feel in response to the article about the boy murdering his mother?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Unaffected.
(c) Disturbed.
(d) Sick.

2. How did Proust not practice what he preached in the message of "In Search of Lost Time"?
(a) He was an extravagant person.
(b) He was blind to ordinary things.
(c) He hated simple things.
(d) He did not like ordinary.

3. What are great author's able to do according to Proust?
(a) Coin cliched terms.
(b) Create imagery and emotions in their readers.
(c) Move people in their words.
(d) Express themselves in unique ways.

4. What did Proust do in response to the newspaper article about the young boy who murdered his mom?
(a) Wrote a 6 page article on the incident.
(b) Protested against articles like that.
(c) Petitioned against snippet articles.
(d) Wrote a 5 page article on the incident.

5. When was a brief bulletin written about a boy Proust knew murdering his mother?
(a) January 1907.
(b) January 1917.
(c) February 1907.
(d) January 1909.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is one sentence of Proust's in "In Search of Lost Time"?

2. In what year did did Proust write the essay about the unsatisfied little boy?

3. Why is the narrator upset about the way the beach house is in Proust's story?

4. What Impressionist artist does De Botton mention?

5. What did Proust compare the moon to in one of his famous metaphors?

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