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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Proust's narrator in "In Search of Lost Time" realize about the beach house?
(a) It's a typical 20th century resort town.
(b) It's Gothic.
(c) It's a mansion.
(d) It's dilapidated.

2. How did Proust feel everyone should view the world?
(a) As if it were their's.
(b) As if it were new.
(c) As if it were real.
(d) As if it were magical.

3. Which of the following did the thoroughly unhappy young man Proust wrote about NOT desire?
(a) Grand places.
(b) Traveling the world.
(c) Cathedrals.
(d) Love.

4. What should love always involve according to Proust?
(a) A support.
(b) A fulfillment.
(c) A need.
(d) A pursuit.

5. What was the title of Proust's novel that gave him international acclaim?
(a) "In Lost Time".
(b) "Searching for Time".
(c) "In Search".
(d) "In Search of Lost Time".

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Proust legendary for?

2. Why is the narrator upset about the way the beach house is in Proust's story?

3. What did Proust have a fear of?

4. What list does Proust develop at the end of Chapter 2?

5. In what year did did Proust write the essay about the unsatisfied little boy?

(see the answer key)

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