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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the final prescription for ensuring long lasting love?
(a) Giving satisfaction.
(b) Desire for something new.
(c) Threat of infedility.
(d) The method of appecriation.

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

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

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. Which of the following did the thoroughly unhappy young man Proust wrote about NOT desire?
(a) Traveling the world.
(b) Love.
(c) Cathedrals.
(d) Grand places.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should lovers take great pains in doing according to Proust?

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

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

4. What game must lovers continuously play according to Proust?

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

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