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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Proust considered to be in the 1920s?
(a) He was an aspiring author.
(b) He was an aspiring lawyer.
(c) A bonafide celebrity.
(d) A great author.

2. When was Proust's father's best selling book published?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1889.

3. In response to the newspaper's poll, what did one person think would happen to people's inhibitions?
(a) All social inhibitions would utterly fall away.
(b) People would become more inhibited.
(c) People would become less inhibited.
(d) Nothing was said about social inhibitions in this text.

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

5. What was Proust's father in particularly concerned with?
(a) Public broadcasting.
(b) Public learning.
(c) Public sanitation.
(d) Public intellect.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is one sentence of Proust's in "In Search of Lost Time"?

2. Why did Proust respond to the newspaper article about the young boy who murdered his mom?

3. What did Proust die from?

4. What did Proust believe art's judgment should not be affected by?

5. What does abbreviation not do justice for?

(see the answer key)

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