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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Marcel Proust?
(a) An politician.
(b) A historian.
(c) The subject of De Botton's book.
(d) A singer.

3. What was Proust's view towards romance like?
(a) Opitimistic.
(b) Pessimistic.
(c) Outgoing.
(d) Negative.

4. Who is Albertine?
(a) A character in Proust's book.
(b) Proust's girlfriend.
(c) Proust's mother.
(d) Proust's sister.

5. What would Proust probe the train timetable for?
(a) Meaning.
(b) Meaning and value.
(c) Values.
(d) Stories and value.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Proust's main passions?

2. What question does De Botton ask after he discusses Proust's father's work?

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

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

5. In what year did Proust's father die?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Proust feel humans would react to having the knowledge of when the end of the world is?

2. What does Proust say about conversation?

3. Who is Jean-Baptiste Chardin?

4. Why was it fitting that Proust became a writer?

5. What did Proust argue was most couple's problem falling out of love?

6. What was Proust's father like?

7. Who is John Ruskin?

8. Discuss what question De Botton details that the L'Intransigeant asked in one of its polls?

9. How did Proust's opinion about knowledge of the end of the world contradict his own way of living?

10. What does Proust suggest his reader's to use books as?

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