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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why would Proust sometimes examine a mundane train timetable?
(a) To fall asleep.
(b) To go crosseyed.
(c) To keep his brain active.
(d) To keep learning.

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

3. How many months later did Proust die after responding to the newspaper's poll?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 4 days.
(c) 7 months.
(d) 5 months.

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

5. What question did the newspaper ask its readers that De Botton analyzes?
(a) How people would react if everyone saw a thearapist
(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 to knowing when the end of the world will happen.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel" what was the title of the newspaper De Botton analyzes?

2. What does Proust urge his readers to focus on?

3. How many years was Proust a librarian for Mazarine library?

4. How did Proust feel in response to the article about the boy murdering his mother?

5. What did Proust's grandfather do?

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