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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Proust find the newspaper reduces murders, tragedies, and the whole human experience to?
(a) Snippets of reality.
(b) Bite size information.
(c) "A morning treat".
(d) Snippets or fantasy.

2. In response to the newspaper's poll, what did one person think would happen to people's inhibitions?
(a) People would become less inhibited.
(b) People would become more inhibited.
(c) Nothing was said about social inhibitions in this text.
(d) All social inhibitions would utterly fall away.

3. What should love always involve according to Proust?
(a) A support.
(b) A need.
(c) A fulfillment.
(d) A pursuit.

4. What do Proust's friends say about Proust in the quotes De Botton gives?
(a) They praise him.
(b) The bash him.
(c) They give him kind words.
(d) They say he is odd and ill.

5. What did Proust believe about people when they were with their friends?
(a) They felt support.
(b) They were pretending.
(c) They were honest.
(d) They were not themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does De Botton reason at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?

2. What did some of Proust's friends term Proust's over affection and fawning nature?

3. Why is the narrator upset about the way the beach house is in Proust's story?

4. What is an artist's role in the judgment of art?

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

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