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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the final prescription for ensuring long lasting love?
(a) Desire for something new.
(b) The method of appecriation.
(c) Threat of infedility.
(d) Giving satisfaction.

2. What was Proust excellent at arranging for everyone else except for himself?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Appreciation.
(c) Parties.
(d) Love.

3. What did Proust see in his friends?
(a) Their negativity.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Their faults.
(d) Their positivity.

4. What was Proust's father's occupation?
(a) He was a teacher.
(b) He was a lawyer.
(c) He was a doctor.
(d) He was a writer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Proust's main passions?

2. What did Proust believe was far inferior to writing?

3. What was the title of Proust's novel that gave him international acclaim?

4. How did Proust act when he was around different types of people?

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

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