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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 the newspaper's popular column at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?
(a) A column for obituaries.
(b) A column for gardening.
(c) A column that interviewed politicians.
(d) A column that polled celebrities.

2. What was the name of the comedy troupe that aimed to find the most succinct summary of Proust's work?
(a) Montey P.
(b) Money Pyton.
(c) Ponty Mython.
(d) Monty Python.

3. How does De Botton believe Proust felt about his father?
(a) He was motivating.
(b) He was intimidated.
(c) He was smart.
(d) He was inspiring.

4. What does De Botton say to suggest it makes sense for De Botton to become an author?
(a) He loved books.
(b) His family was full of writers.
(c) He was an English teacher.
(d) He loved to read.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How would great stories of literature become boring?

2. What does De Botton coin the term of reader's seeing themselves in works of fiction as?

3. What list does Proust develop at the end of Chapter 2?

4. What does Proust's description of the Duchesse de Guermantes reminds De Botton of?

5. Who is Marquis de Lau?

(see the answer key)

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