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

2. What was Proust's father in particularly concerned with?
(a) Public broadcasting.
(b) Public sanitation.
(c) Public learning.
(d) Public intellect.

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

4. What would Proust probe the train timetable for?
(a) Stories and value.
(b) Meaning.
(c) Values.
(d) Meaning and value.

5. What does Proust believe a life examined is?
(a) A life well lived.
(b) Essential to everyone.
(c) A life worthless.
(d) A waste of time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Proust have a fear of?

2. Who did Proust tell that he wanted his book to do for people what his father did for people?

3. What question did the newspaper ask its readers that De Botton analyzes?

4. What did Proust repress in his life?

5. What was Proust considered to be in the 1920s?

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