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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 sanitation.
(b) Public learning.
(c) Public intellect.
(d) Public broadcasting.

2. What does Proust reason humans as creatures of habit develop towards their lovers?
(a) A lack of apprecaition.
(b) Contemt for the familiar.
(c) A resentment.
(d) An expectation.

3. What does the examination of merits of art include in its survey?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The title of the art.
(c) The inspiration.
(d) The artist's bipography.

4. 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.

5. What should love always involve according to Proust?
(a) A pursuit.
(b) A need.
(c) A support.
(d) A fulfillment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Proust's life filled with?

2. What did Proust's mother's actions cause Proust to do?

3. Who was Proust's father's best selling book written for?

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

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

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