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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 reason humans as creatures of habit develop towards their lovers?
(a) A lack of apprecaition.
(b) An expectation.
(c) A resentment.
(d) Contemt for the familiar.

2. Who wrote the "Lover and the Doctor"?
(a) Gabriel de La Rochefoucald.
(b) Henri van Blarenberg.
(c) Marquis de Lau.
(d) Proust.

3. Where did Proust's father take Proust when he was a child?
(a) A brothel.
(b) A football game.
(c) A museum.
(d) A carnival.

4. How was Proust's personal life at odds with the answer he gave to the newspaper's question?
(a) He was a recluse himself.
(b) He never fell in love.
(c) He never went to the Louvre.
(d) He never traveled to India.

5. What did Proust's grandfather do?
(a) Practiced law.
(b) Manufactured wax candles.
(c) Practiced medicine.
(d) Taught history.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Proust's mother like?

2. How many years was Proust a librarian for Mazarine library?

3. What did Proust believe about painters?

4. How would great stories of literature become boring?

5. How many years had it been since Proust visited the Louvre when he responded to the newspaper's poll?

(see the answer key)

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