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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. What city's newspaper does De Botton analyze at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?

3. Who is Albertine?

4. What did Proust refuse from the doctors on his deathbed?

5. How does De Botton believe Proust felt about his father?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Proust's opinion of newspapers.

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

5. How did Proust's friends feel about Proust's relationship with his mother?

6. What is the L'Intransigeant?

7. Describe some of the benefits of MLP.

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

9. What question does De Botton wonder about the artist and his work?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Explain and discuss Proust's opinion on newspapers and what happened to make him feel the way he does about them.

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