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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does De Botton reason at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?
(a) There are plenty of things humans should be unhappy about.
(b) Lust isthe driving force between all people.
(c) Love is the driving force between all people.
(d) There are plenty of things humans should be happy about.

3. Which of the following people were not mentioned to have responded to the newspaper's poll?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Madame Fraya.
(c) Berthe Bovy
(d) Henri Bordeaux.

4. What was Proust's father in particularly concerned with?
(a) Public sanitation.
(b) Public intellect.
(c) Public learning.
(d) Public broadcasting.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does De Botton say to suggest it makes sense for De Botton to become an author?

2. What was Proust considered to be in the 1920s?

3. What was Proust's father's name?

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

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

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