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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's life filled with?
(a) Missteps in physicality and psychology.
(b) Missteps in physicality.
(c) Missteps in intellect.
(d) Missteps in his upbringing.

2. What question did the newspaper ask its readers that De Botton analyzes?
(a) How people would react if they saw their family killed.
(b) How people would react to knowing when the end of the world will happen.
(c) How people would react if everyone saw a thearapist
(d) How people would react when the third world war begins.

3. Who did Proust tell that he wanted his book to do for people what his father did for people?
(a) His sister.
(b) His best friend.
(c) His maid.
(d) His doctor.

4. What year did Proust write his novel that gave him international acclaim?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1919.

5. What was Proust's response to the newspaper's poll?
(a) That people's social inhibitions would fall away.
(b) That knowledge of imminent death would cause humans to apprciate life more fully.
(c) That people would go into mass panic.
(d) That people would begin to mend and repair estranged relationships.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Proust respond to the newspaper article about the young boy who murdered his mom?

2. What year was Pensees written?

3. What question does De Botton ask after he discusses Proust's father's work?

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

5. What was the young man who murdered his mother named?

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