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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Proust tell that he wanted his book to do for people what his father did for people?
(a) His doctor.
(b) His best friend.
(c) His maid.
(d) His sister.

2. According to Proust, what should exist when a lover is being obtained?
(a) A desire.
(b) A thrill.
(c) A pursuit.
(d) A chase.

3. What did Proust's own problems with friendship come from?
(a) His supernatural powers of love.
(b) His supernatural powers of analysis.
(c) His supernatural powers of perception.
(d) His supernatural powers of inferiority.

4. Who did Proust write to in the letter De Botton shares in Chapter 8?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His mother.
(c) His sister.
(d) His grandfather,

5. Where did Proust's father take Proust when he was a child?
(a) A brothel.
(b) A football game.
(c) A carnival.
(d) A museum.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Proust's narrator in "In Search of Lost Time" realize about the beach house?

2. What city's newspaper does De Botton analyze at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?

3. What does De Botton say to suggest it makes sense for De Botton to become an author?

4. How did Proust feel when people used trite and cliched expressions?

5. What would Proust probe the train timetable for?

(see the answer key)

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