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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city's newspaper does De Botton analyze at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?
(a) Milan.
(b) Rome.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

2. What question does De Botton ask after he discusses Proust's father's work?
(a) "What are the benefits of reading"?
(b) "If We Should Read"?
(c) "To Read or Not to Read"?
(d) "How Should We Read"?

3. 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.

4. 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 traveled to India.
(c) He never fell in love.
(d) He never went to the Louvre.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Kate?

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

3. What did Proust's grandfather do?

4. What was the newspaper's popular column at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?

5. How many books did Proust's father publish?

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