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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel" what did Proust hate?
(a) Art.
(b) Writing.
(c) People.
(d) Museum crowds.

2. What does De Botton say to suggest it makes sense for De Botton to become an author?
(a) He loved to read.
(b) He loved books.
(c) He was an English teacher.
(d) His family was full of writers.

3. What are great author's able to do according to Proust?
(a) Move people in their words.
(b) Coin cliched terms.
(c) Create imagery and emotions in their readers.
(d) Express themselves in unique ways.

4. Who is the unhappy young boy a reflection of in "In Search of Lost Time"?
(a) Gregh.
(b) The narrator.
(c) De Botton.
(d) Albertine.

5. What did Proust explain after the article was written about the young boy who murdered his mom.
(a) Henri's state of mind.
(b) Henry's cause of death.
(c) Henri's cause of death.
(d) Henry's state of mind.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Proust see in his friends?

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

5. What does Proust find the newspaper reduces murders, tragedies, and the whole human experience to?

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