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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 reason at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?
(a) Lust isthe driving force between all people.
(b) Love is the driving force between all people.
(c) There are plenty of things humans should be unhappy about.
(d) There are plenty of things humans should be happy about.

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

3. What did Proust's mother's actions cause Proust to do?
(a) Be clingy and helpless.
(b) Be annoying.
(c) Be insecure.
(d) Be loving.

4. Who was Proust's father's best selling book written for?
(a) Teenage boys.
(b) Teenage girls.
(c) Mothers.
(d) Everyone.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was a brief bulletin written about a boy Proust knew murdering his mother?

2. Who does De Botton wonder can be separated from his or her work in Chapter 4?

3. Who is Albertine?

4. When was Proust's father's best selling book published?

5. How many meals a day did Proust have?

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