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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Marquis de Lau?
(a) A friend of Proust's.
(b) A well known figure in Rome.
(c) A well known figure in Paris.
(d) A well known figure in Spain.

2. 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.

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

4. How many months later did Proust die after responding to the newspaper's poll?
(a) 7 months.
(b) 4 months.
(c) 5 months.
(d) 4 days.

5. In what year did Proust's father die?
(a) 1906.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1903.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Marcel Proust?

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

3. What was the title of Proust's father's most successful book?

4. What does De Botton suggest about human bodies?

5. What was Proust's father in particularly concerned with?

(see the answer key)

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