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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does De Botton suggest about human bodies?
(a) They are insufficient.
(b) They lack security.
(c) Humans become unhappy as our bodies go frail.
(d) They are ugly.

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

4. What was the name of the comedy troupe that aimed to find the most succinct summary of Proust's work?
(a) Monty Python.
(b) Money Pyton.
(c) Montey P.
(d) Ponty Mython.

5. How many books did Proust's father publish?
(a) 35.
(b) 43.
(c) 32.
(d) 34.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Proust begin to work on his masterpiece?

2. What does Proust desire his reader to not do?

3. What did Proust die from?

4. When was a brief bulletin written about a boy Proust knew murdering his mother?

5. Why would Proust sometimes examine a mundane train timetable?

(see the answer key)

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