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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the reality of people's life often not match in the perception of their life?
(a) The activity they have in their actions.
(b) The passivity their life has.
(c) Their own desires.
(d) The image they see.

2. What does the narrator in "In Search of Lost Time" become enamored with?
(a) An airplane.
(b) A car.
(c) A house.
(d) A woman.

3. What did Proust see in his friends?
(a) Their faults.
(b) Their positivity.
(c) Their negativity.
(d) Nothing.

4. What did Proust use to find his power of manipulation?
(a) His intellect.
(b) His wealth.
(c) His reading.
(d) His perception.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Proust's friends say about Proust in the quotes De Botton gives?

2. How did Proust respond to the Impressionist art movement?

3. What happened where Proust went to with his father as a child?

4. What does Aunt Leonie daydream about?

5. Who is Gilberte?

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