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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 believe a life examined is?
(a) A life worthless.
(b) Essential to everyone.
(c) A waste of time.
(d) A life well lived.

2. What does Proust urge his readers to focus on?
(a) The past.
(b) The future.
(c) History.
(d) The present.

3. What does abbreviation not do justice for?
(a) The course of human events.
(b) The course of human relationships.
(c) The course of human interactions.
(d) The course of human emotions.

4. What year was Pensees written?
(a) 1626.
(b) 1624.
(c) 1625.
(d) 1623.

5. What did Proust explain after the article was written about the young boy who murdered his mom.
(a) Henry's cause of death.
(b) Henry's state of mind.
(c) Henri's state of mind.
(d) Henri's cause of death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Proust feel people should take the time to create?

2. What is Proust's narrator suddenly filled with after he eats some cake in "In Search of Lost Time"?

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

4. What did Proust feel people's dissatisfaction or unhappiness ultimately was?

5. How did Proust respond to the Impressionist art movement?

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