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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. What did Proust have a fear of?

2. How would great stories of literature become boring?

3. What would Proust write to his mother and tell her about?

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

5. Who was the artist of Old Man and the Boy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe how Proust's friends think of him according to the quotes in Chapter 6.

4. Who is John Ruskin?

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

6. Describe how Proust thought art should be critiqued.

7. How did Proust feel about Claude Monet?

8. What does De Botton reason the finger placing ability evokes in its readers?

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

10. What was Monty Python?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and explain the theme and moral of Proust's essay about the unsatisfied young man.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and explain the reasons Proust gives for humans falling in and out of love.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Proust to his father, Dr. Adrien Proust and how they were similar and different.

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