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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years was Proust a librarian for Mazarine library?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 6 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 8 years.

2. What was Proust's father in particularly concerned with?
(a) Public learning.
(b) Public sanitation.
(c) Public intellect.
(d) Public broadcasting.

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

4. What does Proust's description of the Duchesse de Guermantes reminds De Botton of?
(a) His step mother.
(b) His ex girlfriend.
(c) The step mother of an ex girlfriend.
(d) His sister.

5. Who was the artist of Old Man and the Boy?
(a) Domnico Ghirland.
(b) Domenico Ghirlandio.
(c) Ghirlandiouso.
(d) Garland Domenion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game did one person claim they would play in response to the newspaper's question?

2. How was Proust's personal life at odds with the answer he gave to the newspaper's question?

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

4. In what year did Proust's father die?

5. What was Proust's response to the newspaper's poll?

(see the answer key)

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