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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who rejected the story about the unsatisfied young boy from being published?
(a) His published.
(b) No one.
(c) The newspaper editor.
(d) The magazine editor.

2. Who shows the narrator paintings of ordinary things, forcing the narrator to appreciate the simplicity in them?
(a) Albertine.
(b) Aunt Leonie.
(c) De Botton.
(d) Elstir.

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

4. What should lovers take great pains in doing according to Proust?
(a) Making each other feel supported.
(b) Remembeirng the good times.
(c) Having special nights.
(d) Discovering new things about their partners.

5. According to Proust, what should exist when a lover is being obtained?
(a) A desire.
(b) A pursuit.
(c) A chase.
(d) A thrill.

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

7. Where did Proust's father take Proust when he was a child?
(a) A carnival.
(b) A museum.
(c) A brothel.
(d) A football game.

8. How did Proust act when he was around different types of people?
(a) Different according to whom he was with.
(b) Exuberantly.
(c) Uncomfortable.
(d) The same at all times.

9. What did Proust believe about painters?
(a) They were needed in society.
(b) They were talented.
(c) They had the ability to open our eyes.
(d) They had the ability to move its viewer.

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

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

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

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

14. What did Proust compare the moon to in one of his famous metaphors?
(a) A child.
(b) An actor.
(c) Religion.
(d) A woman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Proust feel people should separate in their friendship?

2. What was the artist Proust wanted the young boy to become acquainted with paint?

3. What did Proust himself have a wide variety of?

4. What does the narrator in "In Search of Lost Time" become enamored with?

5. How did Proust feel everyone should view the world?

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