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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 mother like?
(a) Absent.
(b) Funny.
(c) Overbearing.
(d) Protective.

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

3. What did Proust do in response to the newspaper article about the young boy who murdered his mom?
(a) Wrote a 6 page article on the incident.
(b) Wrote a 5 page article on the incident.
(c) Petitioned against snippet articles.
(d) Protested against articles like that.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does De Botton coin the term of reader's seeing themselves in works of fiction as?

2. What type of physical attacks did Proust have growing up?

3. How old was Proust when his attacks began?

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

5. Who was Proust's father's best selling book written for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the L'Intransigeant?

2. What was Monty Python?

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

4. Who is Henri van Blarenberghe?

5. What are the dangers of reading?

6. Describe how Proust thought art should be critiqued.

7. What was Proust's father like?

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

9. What was Proust's problem with romance and love?

10. Describe Proust's opinion of newspapers.

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