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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 did Proust feel in response to the article about the boy murdering his mother?

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

3. What were Proust's main passions?

4. What was Proust's life filled with?

5. What was the young man who murdered his mother named?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Proust feel should be separated between a person and their friends?

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

3. What is the Marquis de Lau Phenomenon?

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

5. Who is John Ruskin?

6. What does Proust suggest his reader's to use books as?

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

8. What was Monty Python?

9. Describe some of the benefits of MLP.

10. Discuss the significance of the expectation of imagery in the young boy from Proust's essay.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain what purpose and benefits Proust argues books serve to humans and their experience in life. Discuss the list of pros and cons he gives to reading.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the way Proust's death is a reflection of himself as an individual and what it reflects about his overall character.

Essay Topic 3

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

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