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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did some of Proust's friends term Proust's over affection and fawning nature?
(a) Proustification.
(b) Proustist.
(c) Prousting.
(d) Proustism.

2. Who was an editor who also wrote a piece about a composer George Bizet?
(a) Louis Ganderax.
(b) De Botton.
(c) Marquis de Lau.
(d) Proust.

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

4. What do Proust's friends say about Proust in the quotes De Botton gives?
(a) They give him kind words.
(b) They say he is odd and ill.
(c) The bash him.
(d) They praise him.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Proust feel people's dissatisfaction or unhappiness ultimately was?

4. What image does Proust's narrator have of the beach house he goes to in "In Search of Lost Time"?

5. Which of the following did the thoroughly unhappy young man Proust wrote about NOT desire?

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