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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 reason at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?
(a) There are plenty of things humans should be happy about.
(b) Love is the driving force between all people.
(c) Lust isthe driving force between all people.
(d) There are plenty of things humans should be unhappy about.

2. How many years was Proust a librarian for Mazarine library?
(a) 8 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 6 years.
(d) 5 years.

3. What was Proust's life filled with?
(a) Missteps in physicality.
(b) Missteps in intellect.
(c) Missteps in his upbringing.
(d) Missteps in physicality and psychology.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Proust's father's best selling book published?

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

3. How many months later did Proust die after responding to the newspaper's poll?

4. What does Proust find the newspaper reduces murders, tragedies, and the whole human experience to?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Proust see the purpose of great writer's is?

3. Who is Jean-Baptiste Chardin?

4. Discuss the narrator and Gilberte from "In Search of Lost Time" and what their interaction demonstrates in real life.

5. What did Proust feel should be separated between a person and their friends?

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

7. What question is asked in Chapter 9?

8. Describe what Proust's writing was infamous for?

9. What did Proust feel people should take their time to create?

10. Describe Proust's physical health.

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