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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Proust allergic to?
(a) Cologne and soap.
(b) Soap and shaving cream.
(c) Cologne.
(d) Soap.

2. What is an artist's role in the judgment of art?
(a) To remain objective.
(b) He or she is unimportant.
(c) He or she is important.
(d) To remain subjective.

3. Who was the artist of Old Man and the Boy?
(a) Ghirlandiouso.
(b) Domnico Ghirland.
(c) Domenico Ghirlandio.
(d) Garland Domenion.

4. In response to the newspaper's poll, what did one person think would happen to people's inhibitions?
(a) Nothing was said about social inhibitions in this text.
(b) People would become less inhibited.
(c) All social inhibitions would utterly fall away.
(d) People would become more inhibited.

5. What type of physical attacks did Proust have growing up?
(a) Ashthma.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Panic.
(d) Paranoia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Marquis de Lau?

2. Who did Proust tell that he wanted his book to do for people what his father did for people?

3. What does Aunt Leonie daydream about?

4. How many months later did Proust die after responding to the newspaper's poll?

5. How did Proust's friends react to Proust's relationship with his mother?

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