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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. How did Proust feel in response to the article about the boy murdering his mother?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Sick.
(c) Unaffected.
(d) Disturbed.

2. When was Proust's father's best selling book published?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1888.

3. What was Proust allergic to?
(a) Cologne and soap.
(b) Soap.
(c) Soap and shaving cream.
(d) Cologne.

4. What does Proust find the newspaper reduces murders, tragedies, and the whole human experience to?
(a) Bite size information.
(b) "A morning treat".
(c) Snippets or fantasy.
(d) Snippets of reality.

5. How would great stories of literature become boring?
(a) If they did not include violence.
(b) If they did not include romance.
(c) If they omitted details and left only facts.
(d) If they were reduced to one sentence sound bites.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Proust's life filled with?

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

3. What was Proust considered to be in the 1920s?

4. What does De Botton suggest about human social life?

5. In response to the newspaper's poll, what did one person think would happen to people's inhibitions?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the subject of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?

2. What is the Marquis de Lau Phenomenon?

3. What solutions does Proust offer lover's to keep their love alive?

4. What is the L'Intransigeant?

5. Describe Proust's mother.

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

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

8. Describe how Proust ultimately released the way he truly felt about his friends.

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

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

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