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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. What does De Botton suggest about human bodies?
(a) They are insufficient.
(b) Humans become unhappy as our bodies go frail.
(c) They are ugly.
(d) They lack security.

2. What does the examination of merits of art include in its survey?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The artist's bipography.
(c) The inspiration.
(d) The title of the art.

3. How did Proust's friends react to Proust's relationship with his mother?
(a) They did not care.
(b) They were annoyed.
(c) They were bothered.
(d) They were uncomfortable.

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

5. What was Proust rarely exposed to?
(a) Public places.
(b) People.
(c) Women.
(d) Fresh air.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Proust believe a life examined is?

3. What did Proust die from?

4. What was Proust's father in particularly concerned with?

5. When was a brief bulletin written about a boy Proust knew murdering his mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Proust's father like?

2. Describe how Proust's friends think of him according to the quotes in Chapter 6.

3. What question is asked in Chapter 9?

4. What did Proust feel jealousy had the power to do?

5. What does Proust say about friendship in the quotes De Botton gives in Chapter 6?

6. Describe the young boy in the essay Proust wrote that was centered around a young boy's unhappiness.

7. What was Monty Python?

8. Describe the quote De Botton begins Chapter 1 with.

9. What did Proust believe painter's were capable of?

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

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