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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Proust rarely exposed to?
(a) Women.
(b) Public places.
(c) Fresh air.
(d) People.

2. What type of physical attacks did Proust have growing up?
(a) Panic.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Ashthma.
(d) Paranoia.

3. What was the young man who murdered his mother named?
(a) Henri van Blarenberge.
(b) Henry von Schlotter.
(c) Henry von Blarenberg.
(d) Henri van Schlotter.

4. What was Proust's response to the newspaper's poll?
(a) That people's social inhibitions would fall away.
(b) That people would begin to mend and repair estranged relationships.
(c) That people would go into mass panic.
(d) That knowledge of imminent death would cause humans to apprciate life more fully.

5. What did Proust have a fear of?
(a) Mice and heights.
(b) Flying.
(c) Heights and falling.
(d) Mice and cheese.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What question does De Botton ask after he discusses Proust's father's work?

3. What was the name of the comedy troupe that aimed to find the most succinct summary of Proust's work?

4. Who wrote Pensees?

5. What does De Botton suggest about human social life?

(see the answer key)

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