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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would Proust write to his mother and tell her about?
(a) His last writing.
(b) His most recent friendship.
(c) The quality of his stool.
(d) His latest girlfriend.

2. How long is one sentence of Proust's in "In Search of Lost Time"?
(a) 4 meters.
(b) 4 and a half meters.
(c) 3 meters.
(d) 5 meters.

3. What does Proust urge his readers to focus on?
(a) The present.
(b) The future.
(c) The past.
(d) History.

4. Who is Albertine?
(a) A character in Proust's book.
(b) Proust's sister.
(c) Proust's mother.
(d) Proust's girlfriend.

5. Who was the artist of Old Man and the Boy?
(a) Garland Domenion.
(b) Domenico Ghirlandio.
(c) Ghirlandiouso.
(d) Domnico Ghirland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following people were not mentioned to have responded to the newspaper's poll?

2. What is Proust legendary for?

3. According to the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel" what did Proust hate?

4. What does De Botton suggest about human bodies?

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

(see the answer key)

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