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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are great author's able to do according to Proust?
(a) Create imagery and emotions in their readers.
(b) Move people in their words.
(c) Coin cliched terms.
(d) Express themselves in unique ways.

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

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

4. What would Proust probe the train timetable for?
(a) Stories and value.
(b) Values.
(c) Meaning and value.
(d) Meaning.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Who rejected the story about the unsatisfied young boy from being published?

5. What did Proust compare the moon to in one of his famous metaphors?

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