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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Proust considered to be in the 1920s?
(a) He was an aspiring author.
(b) He was an aspiring lawyer.
(c) A bonafide celebrity.
(d) A great author.

2. What was the name of the comedy troupe that aimed to find the most succinct summary of Proust's work?
(a) Money Pyton.
(b) Monty Python.
(c) Ponty Mython.
(d) Montey P.

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

4. Where does Proust suggest people would travel to in his response to the newspaper's poll?
(a) The Louvre and India.
(b) The Louvre and Rome.
(c) India and China.
(d) China and the Louvre.

5. What is the finger placing ability, according to De Botton?
(a) An increase in our own perceptive powers to discover something in us from our reading.
(b) The ability to point in any direction and find comfort in it.
(c) Being able to locate where you know something or someone.
(d) The ability to understand the power of knowledge.

6. What does De Botton say to suggest it makes sense for De Botton to become an author?
(a) His family was full of writers.
(b) He was an English teacher.
(c) He loved to read.
(d) He loved books.

7. How was Proust's personal life at odds with the answer he gave to the newspaper's question?
(a) He never fell in love.
(b) He never traveled to India.
(c) He never went to the Louvre.
(d) He was a recluse himself.

8. How many years was Proust a librarian for Mazarine library?
(a) 6 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 8 years.

9. Why did Proust respond to the newspaper article about the young boy who murdered his mom?
(a) To release his own emotions.
(b) To give the boy some reasoning for his actions.
(c) To refute the brevity of the first article.
(d) To tell the entire story.

10. What does Proust urge his readers to focus on?
(a) The past.
(b) The present.
(c) The future.
(d) History.

11. In what year did Proust's father die?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1906.

12. What did Proust die from?
(a) A cold.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) A headache.
(d) Cancer.

13. What does De Botton coin the term of reader's seeing themselves in works of fiction as?
(a) MLB.
(b) The Marquis de Lau Phenomenon.
(c) The self Marquis scene.
(d) MFP.

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

15. What was Proust's perception of his own sexuality?
(a) He self loathed.
(b) He was narcissistic.
(c) He self loved.
(d) He was numb to himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an artist's role in the judgment of art?

2. What did Proust's mother's actions cause Proust to do?

3. What was Proust's response to the newspaper's poll?

4. How does De Botton believe Proust felt about his father?

5. What was Proust allergic to?

(see the answer keys)

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