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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How did Proust feel everyone should view the world?
(a) As if it were magical.
(b) As if it were their's.
(c) As if it were real.
(d) As if it were new.

4. What game must lovers continuously play according to Proust?
(a) A game of cat and mouse.
(b) A game of cat and dog.
(c) A game of jealousy.
(d) A game of perception.

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

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

7. What did Proust strive to find within his writing?
(a) The most perfect means of expression.
(b) The most perfect storytelling.
(c) The most perfect writing.
(d) The most perfect means of communication.

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

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

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

11. How many solutions does Proust offer for lovers to keep their love alive?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

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

13. Which of the following did Proust NOT use to describe conversation?
(a) It does not allow for revision.
(b) It does not allow time for introspection.
(c) It was quick and constant.
(d) It was thoughtful.

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

15. What does Proust's narrator in "In Search of Lost Time" realize about the beach house?
(a) It's dilapidated.
(b) It's Gothic.
(c) It's a typical 20th century resort town.
(d) It's a mansion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Proust see in his friends?

2. Who wrote the "Lover and the Doctor"?

3. What did Proust say about people when they used tried sayings?

4. What are great author's able to do according to Proust?

5. What was the name of Proust's friend in which he wrote a mean and berating letter that he never sent and another full of praise that he did send?

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