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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are great author's able to do according to Proust?
(a) Coin cliched terms.
(b) Express themselves in unique ways.
(c) Create imagery and emotions in their readers.
(d) Move people in their words.

2. What does Proust argue people are not doing when they use trite and cliched expressions?
(a) They are uneducated.
(b) They rely on others to communicate.
(c) They are not being true to themselves.
(d) They are annoying.

3. What did the author who's work was affected by their admiration for Proust feel about her own work?
(a) They were terrible.
(b) They lacked quality.
(c) They were scribblings.
(d) They lacked substance.

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

5. What did Proust think the young man would find by becoming familiar with the artist's work?
(a) Happiness in the simplicty.
(b) Admire the little things.
(c) Complacity.
(d) The grandeur in the ordinary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Proust's father in particularly concerned with?

2. How did Proust not practice what he preached in the message of "In Search of Lost Time"?

3. What happened where Proust went to with his father as a child?

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

5. At the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel" what was the title of the newspaper De Botton analyzes?

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