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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "La Flagorneur" mean in English?
(a) "The yesterday".
(b) "The author".
(c) "The today".
(d) "The moment".

2. What did some of Proust's friends term Proust's over affection and fawning nature?
(a) Prousting.
(b) Proustism.
(c) Proustification.
(d) Proustist.

3. Which of the following did Proust NOT say about friendship?
(a) It was needed.
(b) It was a foolish sacrifice.
(c) It was a lie.
(d) It was a farce.

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

5. Who wrote the "Lover and the Doctor"?
(a) Marquis de Lau.
(b) Henri van Blarenberg.
(c) Gabriel de La Rochefoucald.
(d) Proust.

6. What did Proust feel people's dissatisfaction or unhappiness ultimately was?
(a) Failure to communicate.
(b) Failure of perception.
(c) Failure to love.
(d) Failure to understand.

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

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

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

10. What did Proust say about people when they used tried sayings?
(a) They are plagiarizing.
(b) They are lazy.
(c) They are "superficial articulations" of ideas and experiences.
(d) They lack creativity and authenticity.

11. What did Proust's own problems with friendship come from?
(a) His supernatural powers of inferiority.
(b) His supernatural powers of perception.
(c) His supernatural powers of analysis.
(d) His supernatural powers of love.

12. How did Proust act with his friends?
(a) He had no friends.
(b) Passively and with inferiority.
(c) Generously and like a "people pleaser".
(d) Calmly.

13. What does Proust's comparison of the moon show in comparison to the the author of "The Lover and the Doctor"?
(a) Proust's is more lengthy and descriptive.
(b) Proust's is less vivid.
(c) Proust's is a more genuine expression.
(d) They are the same.

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

15. What did Proust feel people should separate in their friendship?
(a) The need for companionship and passion.
(b) The need for passion and intellect.
(c) Intellectual life and our need for companionship.
(d) The intellectual life and the means of support.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many volumes was "In Search of Lost Time" intended to be?

2. What are Proust's quotations on friendships like?

3. What image does Proust's narrator have of the beach house he goes to in "In Search of Lost Time"?

4. What is Proust's narrator suddenly filled with after he eats some cake in "In Search of Lost Time"?

5. In what year did did Proust write the essay about the unsatisfied little boy?

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