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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel" what did Proust hate?
(a) Museum crowds.
(b) Art.
(c) Writing.
(d) People.

3. Who is Proust's impressionist-like painter among his characters in "In Search of Lost Time"?
(a) Elister.
(b) Elstir.
(c) Ellen.
(d) Ellie.

4. What phrase does Proust use to explain one solution of keeping lover's love alive?
(a) "Out of sight out of mind".
(b) "Absence makes the heart grow fonder".
(c) "Give to others more than you expect to receive".
(d) "Love them and continue to".

5. What does the examination of merits of art include in its survey?
(a) The title of the art.
(b) The inspiration.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The artist's bipography.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What would Proust probe the train timetable for?

3. What should love always involve according to Proust?

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

5. What are Proust's quotations on friendships like?

(see the answer key)

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