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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. Which of the following people were not mentioned to have responded to the newspaper's poll?

2. What does Proust believe a life examined is?

3. What was the newspaper's popular column at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?

4. What did Proust's grandfather do?

5. How many meals a day did Proust have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Proust's passion?

2. What is the Marquis de Lau Phenomenon?

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

4. Describe Proust's opinion of newspapers.

5. Who is John Ruskin?

6. Describe the quote De Botton begins Chapter 1 with.

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

8. Describe how Proust thought art should be critiqued.

9. How was Proust affected by Ruskin?

10. Describe how Proust ultimately released the way he truly felt about his friends.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Proust's own lifestyle to what he prompts and encourages his readers to do.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss and describe the solutions Proust gives to lovers to have a successful relationship. What irony exists between Proust's life and his advice on relationships?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Proust viewed cliched and trite expressions and why he feels as strongly as he does about them.

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