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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following did Proust NOT say about friendship?
(a) It was a foolish sacrifice.
(b) It was needed.
(c) It was a lie.
(d) It was a farce.

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

4. Who shows the narrator paintings of ordinary things, forcing the narrator to appreciate the simplicity in them?
(a) Albertine.
(b) Aunt Leonie.
(c) De Botton.
(d) Elstir.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator in "In Search of Lost Time" become enamored with?

2. Who is Aunt Leonie?

3. Who wrote the "Lover and the Doctor"?

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

5. What did Proust believe about painters?

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