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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Proust legendary for?
(a) His companionship.
(b) His elaborate and long descriptions.
(c) His elaborate home.
(d) His long description of architecture.

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

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

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

5. When did Proust begin to work on his masterpiece?
(a) When his mom died.
(b) When his dad died.
(c) After both of his parents died.
(d) After he quit working at the library.

Short Answer Questions

1. In response to the newspaper's poll, what did one person think would happen to people's inhibitions?

2. What does Proust find the newspaper reduces murders, tragedies, and the whole human experience to?

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

4. What does De Botton reason at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?

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

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