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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Pensees?
(a) A well known book of recipes.
(b) A book about a man, Eric Pensees.
(c) A book about music.
(d) A well known book of aphorisms.

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

3. What was the name of the comedy troupe that aimed to find the most succinct summary of Proust's work?
(a) Money Pyton.
(b) Monty Python.
(c) Montey P.
(d) Ponty Mython.

4. What does Proust claim humans too often get upset at unnecessarily?
(a) Their life's expectations.
(b) Their overall desires.
(c) The way they feel about their life.
(d) The image of their life.

5. What does Proust find the newspaper reduces murders, tragedies, and the whole human experience to?
(a) "A morning treat".
(b) Bite size information.
(c) Snippets of reality.
(d) Snippets or fantasy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the "Lover and the Doctor"?

2. What was the young man who murdered his mother named?

3. What does abbreviation not do justice for?

4. What did Proust himself have a wide variety of?

5. Why did Proust respond to the newspaper article about the young boy who murdered his mom?

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