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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an artist's role in the judgment of art?
(a) He or she is unimportant.
(b) He or she is important.
(c) To remain subjective.
(d) To remain objective.

2. What was Proust's mother like?
(a) Absent.
(b) Overbearing.
(c) Protective.
(d) Funny.

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

4. How did Proust act with his friends?
(a) Calmly.
(b) He had no friends.
(c) Generously and like a "people pleaser".
(d) Passively and with inferiority.

5. What did Proust feel people should separate in their friendship?
(a) The need for passion and intellect.
(b) The intellectual life and the means of support.
(c) Intellectual life and our need for companionship.
(d) The need for companionship and passion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What Impressionist artist does De Botton mention?

3. What was the name of the comedy troupe that aimed to find the most succinct summary of Proust's work?

4. What question does De Botton ask after he discusses Proust's father's work?

5. In response to the newspaper's poll, what did one person think would happen to people's inhibitions?

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