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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 would Proust probe the train timetable for?
(a) Meaning.
(b) Meaning and value.
(c) Stories and value.
(d) Values.

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

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

4. What did Proust die from?
(a) A headache.
(b) A cold.
(c) Cancer.
(d) A heart attack.

5. What list does Proust develop at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) A list of benefits for writing.
(b) A list of benefits of MLB.
(c) A list of benefits of MLP.
(d) A list of benefits for reading.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Proust legendary for?

2. What was Proust's father's occupation?

3. What does De Botton reason at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?

4. How many books did Proust's father publish?

5. What did Proust have a fear of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Proust felt when people used trite and cliched expressions.

2. Discuss the significance of the expectation of imagery in the young boy from Proust's essay.

3. What question does De Botton wonder about the artist and his work?

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

5. Why did Proust write in such long-winded form?

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

7. How was Proust affected by Ruskin?

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

9. Describe Virginia Woolf's difficulty with writing.

10. What is the Marquis de Lau Phenomenon?

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