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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does De Botton claim humans are most dedicated to at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?
(a) Intellect.
(b) Love.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Unhappiness.

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

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

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

5. What question did the newspaper ask its readers that De Botton analyzes?
(a) How people would react to knowing when the end of the world will happen.
(b) How people would react if they saw their family killed.
(c) How people would react when the third world war begins.
(d) How people would react if everyone saw a thearapist

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Proust allergic to?

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

3. What is an artist's role in the judgment of art?

4. Who was Proust's father's best selling book written for?

5. What was Proust's response to the newspaper's poll?

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