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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) Love is the driving force between all people.
(b) Lust isthe driving force between all people.
(c) There are plenty of things humans should be happy about.
(d) There are plenty of things humans should be unhappy about.

2. What does De Botton coin the term of reader's seeing themselves in works of fiction as?
(a) The self Marquis scene.
(b) The Marquis de Lau Phenomenon.
(c) MFP.
(d) MLB.

3. Where does Proust suggest people would travel to in his response to the newspaper's poll?
(a) The Louvre and Rome.
(b) China and the Louvre.
(c) The Louvre and India.
(d) India and China.

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

5. In response to the newspaper's poll, what did one person think would happen to people's inhibitions?
(a) All social inhibitions would utterly fall away.
(b) People would become more inhibited.
(c) People would become less inhibited.
(d) Nothing was said about social inhibitions in this text.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Proust write to his mother and tell her about?

2. What was the title of Proust's novel that gave him international acclaim?

3. What did Proust explain after the article was written about the young boy who murdered his mom.

4. Who wrote Pensees?

5. What was Proust rarely exposed to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does De Botton believe Proust felt about his father?

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

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

4. What question is asked in Chapter 9?

5. Who is Henri van Blarenberghe?

6. How did Proust's lifestyle contradict his prompts to his readers?

7. Discuss the distinction between actual life and the "image" of life.

8. What does Proust urge his readers to focus their mind on?

9. Describe Virginia Woolf's difficulty with writing.

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

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