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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How many meals a day did Proust have?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 4 small ones.
(d) 2.

5. What does Proust desire his reader to not do?
(a) Love from experience.
(b) Let life pass them by too quickly.
(c) Love from words.
(d) Read for experience.

6. 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.

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

8. What did Proust explain after the article was written about the young boy who murdered his mom.
(a) Henry's state of mind.
(b) Henri's cause of death.
(c) Henry's cause of death.
(d) Henri's state of mind.

9. What is an artist's role in the judgment of art?
(a) To remain objective.
(b) He or she is important.
(c) To remain subjective.
(d) He or she is unimportant.

10. How many months later did Proust die after responding to the newspaper's poll?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 5 months.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 7 months.

11. What city's newspaper does De Botton analyze at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?
(a) London.
(b) Rome.
(c) Milan.
(d) Paris.

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

13. Who wrote Pensees?
(a) Blaze Pascal.
(b) Pascal Blay.
(c) Blois Pasture.
(d) Blaise Pascal.

14. 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) An increase in our own perceptive powers to discover something in us from our reading.
(d) Being able to locate where you know something or someone.

15. What were Proust's main passions?
(a) Law and medicine.
(b) Writing and reading.
(c) Reading and analyzing.
(d) Literature and writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Proust feel in response to the article about the boy murdering his mother?

2. Which of the following people were not mentioned to have responded to the newspaper's poll?

3. What was the name of the comedy troupe that aimed to find the most succinct summary of Proust's work?

4. What did Proust refuse from the doctors on his deathbed?

5. What was the title of Proust's father's most successful book?

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