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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is Proust's impressionist-like painter among his characters in "In Search of Lost Time"?
(a) Elstir.
(b) Ellie.
(c) Ellen.
(d) Elister.

4. What does Proust's description of the Duchesse de Guermantes reminds De Botton of?
(a) His ex girlfriend.
(b) His step mother.
(c) The step mother of an ex girlfriend.
(d) His sister.

5. What does De Botton coin the term of reader's seeing themselves in works of fiction as?
(a) MFP.
(b) MLB.
(c) The self Marquis scene.
(d) The Marquis de Lau Phenomenon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will the reader eventually feel about the work he or she is reading?

2. Which of the following did the thoroughly unhappy young man Proust wrote about NOT desire?

3. What image does Proust's narrator have of the beach house he goes to in "In Search of Lost Time"?

4. Who is Kate?

5. What was the artist Proust wanted the young boy to become acquainted with paint?

(see the answer key)

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