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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Proust desire his reader to not do?
(a) Love from words.
(b) Love from experience.
(c) Let life pass them by too quickly.
(d) Read for experience.

2. Who shows the narrator paintings of ordinary things, forcing the narrator to appreciate the simplicity in them?
(a) Elstir.
(b) Aunt Leonie.
(c) Albertine.
(d) De Botton.

3. How did Proust act when he was around different types of people?
(a) The same at all times.
(b) Different according to whom he was with.
(c) Exuberantly.
(d) Uncomfortable.

4. What did Proust feel people's dissatisfaction or unhappiness ultimately was?
(a) Failure to understand.
(b) Failure to communicate.
(c) Failure to love.
(d) Failure of perception.

5. How did Proust respond to the Impressionist art movement?
(a) He was supportive.
(b) Indifferently.
(c) Unfavorably.
(d) Favorably.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was a brief bulletin written about a boy Proust knew murdering his mother?

3. What would Proust probe the train timetable for?

4. What was the rage of all aristocratic circles in the early 20th century?

5. What does Proust find the newspaper reduces murders, tragedies, and the whole human experience to?

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