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

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

3. What was Proust's response to the newspaper's poll?
(a) That people would go into mass panic.
(b) That people would begin to mend and repair estranged relationships.
(c) That people's social inhibitions would fall away.
(d) That knowledge of imminent death would cause humans to apprciate life more fully.

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

5. What does Proust desire his reader to not do?
(a) Read for experience.
(b) Let life pass them by too quickly.
(c) Love from words.
(d) Love from experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Albertine?

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

3. What does Proust find the newspaper reduces murders, tragedies, and the whole human experience to?

4. What is an artist's role in the judgment of art?

5. What did Proust believe art's judgment should not be affected by?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Proust's opinion of newspapers.

3. What was Proust's problem and difficulty with friendship?

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

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

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

7. What is Proust's overall point in his opinion on abbreviation?

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

9. Discuss what question De Botton details that the L'Intransigeant asked in one of its polls?

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

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