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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Proust suggest people would travel to in his response to the newspaper's poll?
(a) China and the Louvre.
(b) The Louvre and Rome.
(c) The Louvre and India.
(d) India and China.

2. What was the title of Proust's novel that gave him international acclaim?
(a) "In Search".
(b) "Searching for Time".
(c) "In Search of Lost Time".
(d) "In Lost Time".

3. When was a brief bulletin written about a boy Proust knew murdering his mother?
(a) February 1907.
(b) January 1907.
(c) January 1917.
(d) January 1909.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question did the newspaper ask its readers that De Botton analyzes?

2. At the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel" what was the title of the newspaper De Botton analyzes?

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

4. What does abbreviation not do justice for?

5. What does De Botton suggest about human bodies?

(see the answer key)

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