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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 Proust claim humans too often get upset at unnecessarily?
(a) The image of their life.
(b) Their overall desires.
(c) Their life's expectations.
(d) The way they feel about their life.

2. What did Proust believe art's judgment should not be affected by?
(a) The inspiration.
(b) The artist.
(c) The title.
(d) The quality.

3. When was Proust's father's best selling book published?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1888.

4. What type of life did Proust appear to be headed towards amidst his interest in Ruskin?
(a) A life in language.
(b) A life in the books.
(c) A life in history.
(d) A life in acadamia.

5. What might a writer feel from a great piece of literature?
(a) Inspired.
(b) Crippled or intimidtaed.
(c) Inferior and unsure.
(d) Motvivated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question did the newspaper ask its readers that De Botton analyzes?

2. What did Proust write in response to Ruskin's death?

3. Which of the following did Proust NOT use to describe conversation?

4. What is an artist's role in the judgment of art?

5. How does De Botton believe Proust felt about his father?

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