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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the finger placing ability, according to De Botton?
(a) Being able to locate where you know something or someone.
(b) The ability to point in any direction and find comfort in it.
(c) The ability to understand the power of knowledge.
(d) An increase in our own perceptive powers to discover something in us from our reading.

3. What question did the newspaper ask its readers that De Botton analyzes?
(a) How people would react to knowing when the end of the world will happen.
(b) How people would react if everyone saw a thearapist
(c) How people would react when the third world war begins.
(d) How people would react if they saw their family killed.

4. How many books did Proust's father publish?
(a) 34.
(b) 32.
(c) 35.
(d) 43.

5. Who was Proust's father's best selling book written for?
(a) Teenage girls.
(b) Mothers.
(c) Teenage boys.
(d) Everyone.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Proust's personal life at odds with the answer he gave to the newspaper's question?

2. What does De Botton reason at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?

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

4. What game did one person claim they would play in response to the newspaper's question?

5. What does Proust's description of the Duchesse de Guermantes reminds De Botton of?

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