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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How would great stories of literature become boring?
(a) If they were reduced to one sentence sound bites.
(b) If they did not include violence.
(c) If they did not include romance.
(d) If they omitted details and left only facts.

2. At the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel" what was the title of the newspaper De Botton analyzes?
(a) Le Chronicle.
(b) L'Intransigeant.
(c) Le Monde.
(d) L'Instangeint.

3. What was Proust's father's name?
(a) Dr. Adrien Proust.
(b) Dr. A. A. Proust.
(c) Dr. Adrian E. Prouste.
(d) Mr. Adrien Proust.

4. What question did the newspaper ask its readers that De Botton analyzes?
(a) How people would react if everyone saw a thearapist
(b) How people would react when the third world war begins.
(c) How people would react to knowing when the end of the world will happen.
(d) How people would react if they saw their family killed.

5. What did Proust refuse from the doctors on his deathbed?
(a) Medication.
(b) To talk to them.
(c) Being seen by one.
(d) Diagnosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game did one person claim they would play in response to the newspaper's question?

2. When was a brief bulletin written about a boy Proust knew murdering his mother?

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

4. How many months later did Proust die after responding to the newspaper's poll?

5. Who is Marquis de Lau?

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