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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Proust excellent at arranging for everyone else except for himself?
(a) Love.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Parties.
(d) Appreciation.

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

4. What does the reality of people's life often not match in the perception of their life?
(a) The image they see.
(b) Their own desires.
(c) The activity they have in their actions.
(d) The passivity their life has.

5. Who is the unhappy young boy a reflection of in "In Search of Lost Time"?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Albertine.
(c) De Botton.
(d) Gregh.

6. 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.

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

8. What did Proust see in his friends?
(a) Their negativity.
(b) Their faults.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Their positivity.

9. Why is the narrator upset about the way the beach house is in Proust's story?
(a) He wanted solitude.
(b) He wasn't.
(c) The reality did not match his image.
(d) The reality was exactly like his image.

10. How many volumes was "In Search of Lost Time" intended to be?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

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

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

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

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

15. What does Proust claim humans too often get upset at unnecessarily?
(a) Their life's expectations.
(b) The image of their life.
(c) Their overall desires.
(d) The way they feel about their life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Proust argue people are not doing when they use trite and cliched expressions?

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

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

4. Who is Gilberte?

5. What did Proust feel people should take the time to create?

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