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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aunt Leonie daydream about?
(a) Her own death.
(b) Her family leaving her.
(c) Her parents death.
(d) Her family dying in a house fire.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Proust's narrator suddenly filled with after he eats some cake in "In Search of Lost Time"?

2. What did Proust himself endlessly do in his writing?

3. Who was the artist Proust wanted the young man to be introduced to?

4. What are great author's able to do according to Proust?

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

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