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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aunt Leonie daydream about?
(a) Her family leaving her.
(b) Her family dying in a house fire.
(c) Her own death.
(d) Her parents death.

2. How would great stories of literature become boring?
(a) If they were reduced to one sentence sound bites.
(b) If they omitted details and left only facts.
(c) If they did not include romance.
(d) If they did not include violence.

3. Why is the narrator upset about the way the beach house is in Proust's story?
(a) The reality did not match his image.
(b) He wanted solitude.
(c) He wasn't.
(d) The reality was exactly like his image.

4. What did Proust refuse from the doctors on his deathbed?
(a) Being seen by one.
(b) Diagnosis.
(c) Medication.
(d) To talk to them.

5. According to the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel" what did Proust hate?
(a) People.
(b) Writing.
(c) Museum crowds.
(d) Art.

Short Answer Questions

1. What age was Proust when he had still done nothing (literary wise) with his life?

2. How many meals a day did Proust have?

3. What did the author who's work was affected by their admiration for Proust feel about her own work?

4. What does Proust's comparison of the moon show in comparison to the the author of "The Lover and the Doctor"?

5. What would Proust probe the train timetable for?

(see the answer key)

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