3. What did some of Proust's friends term Proust's over affection and fawning nature?
(a) Proustification.
(b) Prousting.
(c) Proustism.
(d) Proustist.

4. What are Proust's quotations on friendships like?
(a) Kind.
(b) Satirical.
(c) Cynical.
(d) Humorous.

5. What did Proust give as an example of people becoming unsatisfied at something they grew used to?
(a) The television.
(b) The airplane.
(c) The car.
(d) The telephone.

6. Who shows the narrator paintings of ordinary things, forcing the narrator to appreciate the simplicity in them?
(a) De Botton.
(b) Elstir.
(c) Aunt Leonie.
(d) Albertine.

7. Who wrote the "Lover and the Doctor"?
(a) Gabriel de La Rochefoucald.
(b) Marquis de Lau.
(c) Proust.
(d) Henri van Blarenberg.

8. Which of the following did Proust NOT argue people should act around our friends?
(a) Superficial
(b) Dependent.
(c) Affectionate.
(d) Warm.

9. What Impressionist artist does De Botton mention?
(a) Claude de Monet.
(b) Pablo Picasso.
(c) Henry Matisse.
(d) Degas.

10. What does Proust argue people are not doing when they use trite and cliched expressions?
(a) They are annoying.
(b) They are not being true to themselves.
(c) They are uneducated.
(d) They rely on others to communicate.

11. What phrase does Proust use to explain one solution of keeping lover's love alive?
(a) "Absence makes the heart grow fonder".
(b) "Love them and continue to".
(c) "Give to others more than you expect to receive".
(d) "Out of sight out of mind".

12. What did Proust think the young man would find by becoming familiar with the artist's work?
(a) Happiness in the simplicty.
(b) Admire the little things.
(c) Complacity.
(d) The grandeur in the ordinary.

13. How did Proust act when he was around different types of people?
(a) Different according to whom he was with.
(b) Uncomfortable.
(c) Exuberantly.
(d) The same at all times.

14. What does Proust claim humans too often get upset at unnecessarily?
(a) The way they feel about their life.
(b) Their life's expectations.
(c) The image of their life.
(d) Their overall desires.

15. What did Proust say about people when they used tried sayings?
(a) They are lazy.
(b) They are plagiarizing.
(c) They lack creativity and authenticity.
(d) They are "superficial articulations" of ideas and experiences.