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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Proust's response to the newspaper's poll?
(a) That knowledge of imminent death would cause humans to apprciate life more fully.
(b) That people would go into mass panic.
(c) That people's social inhibitions would fall away.
(d) That people would begin to mend and repair estranged relationships.

2. What list does Proust develop at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) A list of benefits for writing.
(b) A list of benefits of MLP.
(c) A list of benefits of MLB.
(d) A list of benefits for reading.

3. What does abbreviation not do justice for?
(a) The course of human emotions.
(b) The course of human relationships.
(c) The course of human events.
(d) The course of human interactions.

4. When was Proust's father's best selling book published?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1901.

5. Why would Proust sometimes examine a mundane train timetable?
(a) To go crosseyed.
(b) To fall asleep.
(c) To keep learning.
(d) To keep his brain active.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Proust's main passions?

2. Who is Marcel Proust?

3. Who was Proust's father's best selling book written for?

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

5. According to the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel" what did Proust hate?

(see the answer key)

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