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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Proust when his attacks began?

2. What was Proust's father in particularly concerned with?

3. What did Proust repress in his life?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Proust's father like?

2. Describe Proust's opinion of newspapers.

3. How did Proust respond to the newspaper article about the young boy who murdered his mother?

4. What is the L'Intransigeant?

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

6. What are the dangers of reading?

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

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

9. What did Proust argue was most couple's problem falling out of love?

10. Describe Proust's childhood experience at the brothel.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and explain what important information the reader gains about Proust from learning about the details of his relationship with his father.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the real artist Jean-Baptiste Chardin to Proust's fictional character, Elstir, in "In Search of Lost Time".

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and explain Proust's own attitude about reading and the way he sees it affect readers.

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