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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What game did one person claim they would play in response to the newspaper's question?
(a) Croquet.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Golf.
(d) Soccer.

2. What was the title of Proust's father's most successful book?
(a) "Elements to Good Health".
(b) "Elements of Hygiene".
(c) "Promotions to Hygiene".
(d) "Hygiene Premises".

3. What was the title of Proust's novel that gave him international acclaim?
(a) "In Search of Lost Time".
(b) "In Lost Time".
(c) "In Search".
(d) "Searching for Time".

4. What question did the newspaper ask its readers that De Botton analyzes?
(a) How people would react if everyone saw a thearapist
(b) How people would react if they saw their family killed.
(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.

5. What does Proust's description of the Duchesse de Guermantes reminds De Botton of?
(a) The step mother of an ex girlfriend.
(b) His ex girlfriend.
(c) His step mother.
(d) His sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Proust probe the train timetable for?

2. What would Proust write to his mother and tell her about?

3. How old was Proust when his attacks began?

4. When did Proust begin to work on his masterpiece?

5. In what year did Proust's father die?

(see the answer key)

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