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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did Proust believe was far inferior to writing?
(a) Radio.
(b) Conversation.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Music.

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

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

8. What does Proust reason jealousy sparks within a relationship?
(a) Resentment.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Anger.
(d) Renewed feelinsg of romance.

9. In what year did did Proust write the essay about the unsatisfied little boy?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1900.

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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".

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aunt Leonie daydream about?

2. How did Proust act when he was around different types of people?

3. What does Proust's comparison of the moon show in comparison to the the author of "The Lover and the Doctor"?

4. What Impressionist artist does De Botton mention?

5. How did Proust feel when people used trite and cliched expressions?

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