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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Proust legendary for?
(a) His companionship.
(b) His long description of architecture.
(c) His elaborate home.
(d) His elaborate and long descriptions.

2. What was Proust's response to the newspaper's poll?
(a) That people's social inhibitions would fall away.
(b) That people would go into mass panic.
(c) That knowledge of imminent death would cause humans to apprciate life more fully.
(d) That people would begin to mend and repair estranged relationships.

3. What did Proust repress in his life?
(a) Intimate desire.
(b) Sexual desire.
(c) Travels.
(d) Companionship.

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

5. What did Proust believe art's judgment should not be affected by?
(a) The inspiration.
(b) The title.
(c) The artist.
(d) The quality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Proust's description of the Duchesse de Guermantes reminds De Botton of?

2. What does De Botton say to suggest it makes sense for De Botton to become an author?

3. What year was Pensees written?

4. What was Proust's father's occupation?

5. What was the young man who murdered his mother named?

(see the answer key)

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