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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What year was Pensees written?
(a) 1624.
(b) 1626.
(c) 1625.
(d) 1623.

4. How old was Proust when he died?
(a) 53 years old.
(b) 51 years old.
(c) 65 years old.
(d) 41 years old.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In response to the newspaper's poll, what did one person think would happen to people's inhibitions?

2. What was the name of the comedy troupe that aimed to find the most succinct summary of Proust's work?

3. What did Proust die from?

4. What city's newspaper does De Botton analyze at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?

5. What does De Botton say to suggest it makes sense for De Botton to become an author?

(see the answer key)

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