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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 people would begin to mend and repair estranged relationships.
(b) That knowledge of imminent death would cause humans to apprciate life more fully.
(c) That people's social inhibitions would fall away.
(d) That people would go into mass panic.

2. What does De Botton coin the term of reader's seeing themselves in works of fiction as?
(a) MLB.
(b) MFP.
(c) The self Marquis scene.
(d) The Marquis de Lau Phenomenon.

3. How would great stories of literature become boring?
(a) If they were reduced to one sentence sound bites.
(b) If they did not include violence.
(c) If they omitted details and left only facts.
(d) If they did not include romance.

4. What were Proust's main passions?
(a) Law and medicine.
(b) Writing and reading.
(c) Reading and analyzing.
(d) Literature and writing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many months later did Proust die after responding to the newspaper's poll?

2. What did Proust explain after the article was written about the young boy who murdered his mom.

3. What did Proust's grandfather do?

4. Which of the following people were not mentioned to have responded to the newspaper's poll?

5. How many books did Proust's father publish?

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