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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Pensees?
(a) A well known book of recipes.
(b) A book about a man, Eric Pensees.
(c) A book about music.
(d) A well known book of aphorisms.

2. How was Proust's personal life at odds with the answer he gave to the newspaper's question?
(a) He never went to the Louvre.
(b) He never traveled to India.
(c) He was a recluse himself.
(d) He never fell in love.

3. When was a brief bulletin written about a boy Proust knew murdering his mother?
(a) January 1909.
(b) January 1917.
(c) February 1907.
(d) January 1907.

4. What does De Botton coin the term of reader's seeing themselves in works of fiction as?
(a) MFP.
(b) The Marquis de Lau Phenomenon.
(c) MLB.
(d) The self Marquis scene.

5. What did Proust explain after the article was written about the young boy who murdered his mom.
(a) Henri's cause of death.
(b) Henry's state of mind.
(c) Henry's cause of death.
(d) Henri's state of mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does De Botton reason at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?

2. What does Proust find the newspaper reduces murders, tragedies, and the whole human experience to?

3. How many years had it been since Proust visited the Louvre when he responded to the newspaper's poll?

4. Where does Proust suggest people would travel to in his response to the newspaper's poll?

5. According to the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel" what did Proust hate?

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