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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel" what did Proust hate?
(a) Writing.
(b) Museum crowds.
(c) Art.
(d) People.

2. How did Proust feel in response to the article about the boy murdering his mother?
(a) Sick.
(b) Depressed.
(c) Disturbed.
(d) Unaffected.

3. What did Proust do in response to the newspaper article about the young boy who murdered his mom?
(a) Wrote a 5 page article on the incident.
(b) Wrote a 6 page article on the incident.
(c) Protested against articles like that.
(d) Petitioned against snippet articles.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the finger placing ability, according to De Botton?

2. What does Proust urge his readers to focus on?

3. When did Proust begin to work on his masterpiece?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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