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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Proust respond to the Impressionist art movement?
(a) He was supportive.
(b) Unfavorably.
(c) Indifferently.
(d) Favorably.

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

4. What happened where Proust went to with his father as a child?
(a) He was trapeeze.
(b) He was unable to perform.
(c) He was great art.
(d) He caught a foul ball.

5. How did Proust succeed in winning friends?
(a) By his wealth.
(b) By keeping the conversation on himself.
(c) By keeping the conversation on the other person.
(d) By being a listener.

6. How did Proust not practice what he preached in the message of "In Search of Lost Time"?
(a) He hated simple things.
(b) He was blind to ordinary things.
(c) He was an extravagant person.
(d) He did not like ordinary.

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

8. What image does Proust's narrator have of the beach house he goes to in "In Search of Lost Time"?
(a) That it's a mansion.
(b) That it's a shack.
(c) That it's Gothic style.
(d) That it's light and airy.

9. Who is Aunt Leonie?
(a) One of Proust's characters in "In Search of Lost Time".
(b) An author.
(c) Proust's aunt.
(d) De Botton's aunt.

10. What did Proust give as an example of people becoming unsatisfied at something they grew used to?
(a) The television.
(b) The airplane.
(c) The telephone.
(d) The car.

11. What did Proust feel people should take the time to create?
(a) Unique thought.
(b) A good meal.
(c) Unique expressions.
(d) A nice essay.

12. How did Proust feel when people used trite and cliched expressions?
(a) Happy.
(b) Angered.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Annoyed.

13. What do Proust's friends say about Proust in the quotes De Botton gives?
(a) They give him kind words.
(b) They praise him.
(c) They say he is odd and ill.
(d) The bash him.

14. What did Proust believe about people when they were with their friends?
(a) They were honest.
(b) They felt support.
(c) They were pretending.
(d) They were not themselves.

15. What is the frequent problem with love according to Proust?
(a) People grow bored and restless.
(b) People grow tired.
(c) People grow old and unattrative.
(d) People change.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Proust strive to find within his writing?

2. What should love always involve according to Proust?

3. What did Proust feel people's dissatisfaction or unhappiness ultimately was?

4. Who did Proust write to in the letter De Botton shares in Chapter 8?

5. What should lovers take great pains in doing according to Proust?

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