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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Proust's personal life at odds with the answer he gave to the newspaper's question?
(a) He never fell in love.
(b) He never went to the Louvre.
(c) He never traveled to India.
(d) He was a recluse himself.

2. What did Proust repress in his life?
(a) Companionship.
(b) Sexual desire.
(c) Travels.
(d) Intimate desire.

3. What did Proust believe art's judgment should not be affected by?
(a) The artist.
(b) The quality.
(c) The inspiration.
(d) The title.

4. Who was the artist of Old Man and the Boy?
(a) Domenico Ghirlandio.
(b) Garland Domenion.
(c) Ghirlandiouso.
(d) Domnico Ghirland.

5. Why did Proust respond to the newspaper article about the young boy who murdered his mom?
(a) To tell the entire story.
(b) To release his own emotions.
(c) To give the boy some reasoning for his actions.
(d) To refute the brevity of the first article.

Short Answer Questions

1. What list does Proust develop at the end of Chapter 2?

2. What did Proust refuse from the doctors on his deathbed?

3. What did Proust die from?

4. What does the examination of merits of art include in its survey?

5. What would Proust probe the train timetable for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Henri van Blarenberghe?

2. Describe how Proust felt when people used trite and cliched expressions.

3. What is the L'Intransigeant?

4. Discuss what question De Botton details that the L'Intransigeant asked in one of its polls?

5. Describe how Proust ultimately released the way he truly felt about his friends.

6. What question is asked in Chapter 9?

7. What question does De Botton wonder about the artist and his work?

8. Who is John Ruskin?

9. What does Proust suggest his reader's to use books as?

10. What solutions does Proust offer lover's to keep their love alive?

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