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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Proust desire his reader to not do?
(a) Read for experience.
(b) Love from words.
(c) Love from experience.
(d) Let life pass them by too quickly.

4. What does Proust find the newspaper reduces murders, tragedies, and the whole human experience to?
(a) Bite size information.
(b) Snippets of reality.
(c) Snippets or fantasy.
(d) "A morning treat".

5. Who wrote Pensees?
(a) Blaise Pascal.
(b) Pascal Blay.
(c) Blaze Pascal.
(d) Blois Pasture.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the examination of merits of art include in its survey?

3. What is Pensees?

4. What was the newspaper's popular column at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?

5. What is Proust legendary for?

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