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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Proust feel people should separate in their friendship?
(a) The intellectual life and the means of support.
(b) The need for companionship and passion.
(c) The need for passion and intellect.
(d) Intellectual life and our need for companionship.

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

3. Who did Proust tell that he wanted his book to do for people what his father did for people?
(a) His doctor.
(b) His sister.
(c) His best friend.
(d) His maid.

4. What did Proust think the young man would find by becoming familiar with the artist's work?
(a) Admire the little things.
(b) Complacity.
(c) The grandeur in the ordinary.
(d) Happiness in the simplicty.

5. Who wrote Pensees?
(a) Blaze Pascal.
(b) Pascal Blay.
(c) Blois Pasture.
(d) Blaise Pascal.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of Proust's friend in which he wrote a mean and berating letter that he never sent and another full of praise that he did send?

3. Who is Aunt Leonie?

4. What was the title of Proust's novel that gave him international acclaim?

5. What does Proust's narrator in "In Search of Lost Time" realize about the beach house?

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