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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Proust's grandfather do?
(a) Practiced medicine.
(b) Manufactured wax candles.
(c) Taught history.
(d) Practiced law.

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

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

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

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 year did Proust write his novel that gave him international acclaim?

2. Who is Kate?

3. What does De Botton suggest about human bodies?

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

5. What was the title of Proust's novel that gave him international acclaim?

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