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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Proust give as an example of people becoming unsatisfied at something they grew used to?
(a) The car.
(b) The television.
(c) The telephone.
(d) The airplane.

3. What are Proust's quotations on friendships like?
(a) Humorous.
(b) Kind.
(c) Cynical.
(d) Satirical.

4. What does "La Flagorneur" mean in English?
(a) "The yesterday".
(b) "The author".
(c) "The today".
(d) "The moment".

5. What is the final prescription for ensuring long lasting love?
(a) Desire for something new.
(b) Giving satisfaction.
(c) Threat of infedility.
(d) The method of appecriation.

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

7. What was the name of Proust's friend in which he wrote a mean and berating letter that he never sent and another full of praise that he did send?
(a) Gregory Fernand.
(b) Greg Ferns.
(c) Ferdinand Gregh.
(d) Fernand Gregh.

8. What did Proust himself endlessly do in his writing?
(a) Rewrote his works.
(b) Wrote in multiple languages.
(c) Proofread his works.
(d) Revised his works.

9. Who is Proust's impressionist-like painter among his characters in "In Search of Lost Time"?
(a) Elstir.
(b) Ellie.
(c) Ellen.
(d) Elister.

10. Why is the narrator upset about the way the beach house is in Proust's story?
(a) The reality was exactly like his image.
(b) He wanted solitude.
(c) The reality did not match his image.
(d) He wasn't.

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

12. What should lovers take great pains in doing according to Proust?
(a) Discovering new things about their partners.
(b) Making each other feel supported.
(c) Remembeirng the good times.
(d) Having special nights.

13. What did Proust feel people should take the time to create?
(a) Unique thought.
(b) A nice essay.
(c) A good meal.
(d) Unique expressions.

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

15. What phrase does Proust use to explain one solution of keeping lover's love alive?
(a) "Out of sight out of mind".
(b) "Give to others more than you expect to receive".
(c) "Love them and continue to".
(d) "Absence makes the heart grow fonder".

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the reality of people's life often not match in the perception of their life?

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

3. What does Proust claim humans too often get upset at unnecessarily?

4. What did Proust believe about painters?

5. What did Proust think the young man would find by becoming familiar with the artist's work?

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