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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 type of physical attacks did Proust have growing up?
(a) Panic.
(b) Ashthma.
(c) Paranoia.
(d) Schizophrenia.
2. What game did one person claim they would play in response to the newspaper's question?
(a) Croquet.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Golf.
3. Why would Proust sometimes examine a mundane train timetable?
(a) To go crosseyed.
(b) To keep his brain active.
(c) To keep learning.
(d) To fall asleep.
4. What does De Botton suggest about human bodies?
(a) Humans become unhappy as our bodies go frail.
(b) They are ugly.
(c) They lack security.
(d) They are insufficient.
5. When was a brief bulletin written about a boy Proust knew murdering his mother?
(a) January 1909.
(b) January 1917.
(c) February 1907.
(d) January 1907.
Short Answer Questions
1. At the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel" what was the title of the newspaper De Botton analyzes?
2. Where does Proust suggest people would travel to in his response to the newspaper's poll?
3. What did Proust do in response to the newspaper article about the young boy who murdered his mom?
4. What did Proust believe art's judgment should not be affected by?
5. Who is Albertine?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Proust argue people were not being when they used cliches?
2. Describe Proust's childhood experience at the brothel.
3. Who is Jean-Baptiste Chardin?
4. How did Proust's opinion about knowledge of the end of the world contradict his own way of living?
5. What does Proust suggest his reader's to use books as?
6. Describe Proust's opinion of newspapers.
7. What did Proust feel jealousy had the power to do?
8. How was Proust affected by Ruskin?
9. Discuss the distinction between actual life and the "image" of life.
10. What is the Marquis de Lau Phenomenon?
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