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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Proust believe a dependency on reading reflects?
(a) The reader is not experience life first hand.
(b) The reader is falling short of his or her own life.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The reader will grow and learn partly from text.

2. What other danger is there in reading according to "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?
(a) False perception.
(b) False feelings.
(c) Artistic idoltry.
(d) Dependency for escape.

3. In what year did did Proust write the essay about the unsatisfied little boy?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1899.

4. When did Proust begin to work on his masterpiece?
(a) When his mom died.
(b) After both of his parents died.
(c) After he quit working at the library.
(d) When his dad died.

5. What does Aunt Leonie daydream about?
(a) Her parents death.
(b) Her family leaving her.
(c) Her own death.
(d) Her family dying in a house fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Proust's father's best selling book written for?

2. What did Proust grow dissatisfied with?

3. What was Proust's father in particularly concerned with?

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

5. What did Proust believe about people when they were with their friends?

(see the answer key)

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