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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does abbreviation not do justice for?
(a) The course of human events.
(b) The course of human relationships.
(c) The course of human emotions.
(d) The course of human interactions.

2. What was Proust's father's name?
(a) Dr. Adrian E. Prouste.
(b) Mr. Adrien Proust.
(c) Dr. A. A. Proust.
(d) Dr. Adrien Proust.

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

4. What does Proust desire his reader to not do?
(a) Love from experience.
(b) Let life pass them by too quickly.
(c) Read for experience.
(d) Love from words.

5. How many books did Proust's father publish?
(a) 32.
(b) 35.
(c) 34.
(d) 43.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Proust's main passions?

2. What is Proust legendary for?

3. Who wrote Pensees?

4. Where does Proust suggest people would travel to in his response to the newspaper's poll?

5. What did Proust repress in his life?

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