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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 was Proust's father's occupation?
(a) He was a lawyer.
(b) He was a doctor.
(c) He was a writer.
(d) He was a teacher.

2. What did Proust refuse from the doctors on his deathbed?
(a) To talk to them.
(b) Medication.
(c) Being seen by one.
(d) Diagnosis.

3. What type of physical attacks did Proust have growing up?
(a) Ashthma.
(b) Panic.
(c) Paranoia.
(d) Schizophrenia.

4. What is the finger placing ability, according to De Botton?
(a) Being able to locate where you know something or someone.
(b) The ability to point in any direction and find comfort in it.
(c) The ability to understand the power of knowledge.
(d) An increase in our own perceptive powers to discover something in us from our reading.

5. What was the young man who murdered his mother named?
(a) Henry von Blarenberg.
(b) Henri van Blarenberge.
(c) Henry von Schlotter.
(d) Henri van Schlotter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Proust feel in response to the article about the boy murdering his mother?

2. What list does Proust develop at the end of Chapter 2?

3. What was the newspaper's popular column at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?

4. What did Proust die from?

5. What did Proust's mother's actions cause Proust to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe De Botton's MLP moment with Proust's character Albertine from "In Search of Lost Time".

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

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

4. Who is Henri van Blarenberghe?

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

6. How did Proust's opinion about knowledge of the end of the world contradict his own way of living?

7. How did Proust's friends feel about Proust's relationship with his mother?

8. Why was it fitting that Proust became a writer?

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

10. What was Proust's passion?

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