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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Proust considered to be in the 1920s?
(a) A great author.
(b) A bonafide celebrity.
(c) He was an aspiring lawyer.
(d) He was an aspiring author.

2. How would great stories of literature become boring?
(a) If they omitted details and left only facts.
(b) If they did not include romance.
(c) If they were reduced to one sentence sound bites.
(d) If they did not include violence.

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

4. Who was Proust's father's best selling book written for?
(a) Teenage boys.
(b) Teenage girls.
(c) Mothers.
(d) Everyone.

5. Who is Albertine?
(a) Proust's girlfriend.
(b) Proust's sister.
(c) A character in Proust's book.
(d) Proust's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title of Proust's novel that gave him international acclaim?

2. What is Proust legendary for?

3. What question did the newspaper ask its readers that De Botton analyzes?

4. What does Proust believe a life examined is?

5. What is Pensees?

(see the answer key)

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