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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What list does Proust develop at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) A list of benefits of MLB.
(b) A list of benefits for reading.
(c) A list of benefits for writing.
(d) A list of benefits of MLP.

2. How many years had it been since Proust visited the Louvre when he responded to the newspaper's poll?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) He had never been.
(d) 5 years.

3. What does De Botton claim humans are most dedicated to at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?
(a) Unhappiness.
(b) Intellect.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Love.

4. 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.

5. Which of the following people were not mentioned to have responded to the newspaper's poll?
(a) Berthe Bovy
(b) Madame Fraya.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) Henri Bordeaux.

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

7. What was the newspaper's popular column at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?
(a) A column that interviewed politicians.
(b) A column for obituaries.
(c) A column for gardening.
(d) A column that polled celebrities.

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

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

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

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

12. What question did the newspaper ask its readers that De Botton analyzes?
(a) How people would react if they saw their family killed.
(b) How people would react to knowing when the end of the world will happen.
(c) How people would react if everyone saw a thearapist
(d) How people would react when the third world war begins.

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

14. What game did one person claim they would play in response to the newspaper's question?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Golf.
(c) Croquet.
(d) Soccer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Proust's grandfather do?

2. What does De Botton suggest about human bodies?

3. Who does De Botton wonder can be separated from his or her work in Chapter 4?

4. What type of physical attacks did Proust have growing up?

5. What did Proust die from?

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