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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Proust legendary for?
(a) His companionship.
(b) His long description of architecture.
(c) His elaborate and long descriptions.
(d) His elaborate home.

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

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

4. How many years had it been since Proust visited the Louvre when he responded to the newspaper's poll?
(a) 5 years.
(b) He had never been.
(c) 15 years.
(d) 10 years.

5. What did Proust refuse from the doctors on his deathbed?
(a) Being seen by one.
(b) Medication.
(c) Diagnosis.
(d) To talk to them.

Short Answer Questions

1. In response to the newspaper's poll, what did one person think would happen to people's inhibitions?

2. In what year did Proust's father die?

3. What game did one person claim they would play in response to the newspaper's question?

4. What does abbreviation not do justice for?

5. How did Proust feel in response to the article about the boy murdering his mother?

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