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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does De Botton claim humans are most dedicated to at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?
(a) Love.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Intellect.
(d) Unhappiness.

2. Who is Kate?
(a) Proust's girlfriend.
(b) Proust's mother.
(c) De Botton's sister.
(d) De Botton's girlfriend.

3. How many years had it been since Proust visited the Louvre when he responded to the newspaper's poll?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) He had never been.
(d) 10 years.

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

5. What does Proust desire his reader to not do?
(a) Read for experience.
(b) Love from experience.
(c) Let life pass them by too quickly.
(d) Love from words.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What were Proust's main passions?

4. Who is Marcel Proust?

5. What does De Botton suggest about human bodies?

(see the answer key)

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