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

3. What is Pensees?
(a) A well known book of aphorisms.
(b) A book about a man, Eric Pensees.
(c) A book about music.
(d) A well known book of recipes.

4. What was Proust's mother like?
(a) Funny.
(b) Overbearing.
(c) Protective.
(d) Absent.

5. According to the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel" what did Proust hate?
(a) Art.
(b) People.
(c) Museum crowds.
(d) Writing.

6. What did Proust believe art's judgment should not be affected by?
(a) The quality.
(b) The artist.
(c) The title.
(d) The inspiration.

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

8. How would great stories of literature become boring?
(a) If they were reduced to one sentence sound bites.
(b) If they did not include romance.
(c) If they did not include violence.
(d) If they omitted details and left only facts.

9. What question does De Botton ask after he discusses Proust's father's work?
(a) "What are the benefits of reading"?
(b) "To Read or Not to Read"?
(c) "How Should We Read"?
(d) "If We Should Read"?

10. How old was Proust when he died?
(a) 41 years old.
(b) 65 years old.
(c) 51 years old.
(d) 53 years old.

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

12. When was a brief bulletin written about a boy Proust knew murdering his mother?
(a) January 1907.
(b) February 1907.
(c) January 1917.
(d) January 1909.

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

14. What was Proust's father's name?
(a) Dr. Adrian E. Prouste.
(b) Dr. Adrien Proust.
(c) Dr. A. A. Proust.
(d) Mr. Adrien Proust.

15. Who was Proust's father's best selling book written for?
(a) Teenage boys.
(b) Teenage girls.
(c) Everyone.
(d) Mothers.