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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 was Proust considered to be in the 1920s?

2. How did Proust's friends react to Proust's relationship with his mother?

3. Where does Proust suggest people would travel to in his response to the newspaper's poll?

4. What does De Botton suggest about human bodies?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the Marquis de Lau Phenomenon?

4. Who is Jean-Baptiste Chardin?

5. What did Proust feel jealousy had the power to do?

6. Describe Proust's physical health.

7. What is the L'Intransigeant?

8. Who is John Ruskin?

9. Describe the subject of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?

10. What was Monty Python?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss Proust's relationship with his mother and how his relationship with her affected his life greatly.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss and explain how Proust's response to the L'Intransigeant poll contradicted with the way Proust lived his own life.

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