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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 if they saw their family killed.
(c) How people would react when the third world war begins.
(d) How people would react to knowing when the end of the world will happen.

2. How was Proust's personal life at odds with the answer he gave to the newspaper's question?
(a) He never traveled to India.
(b) He never fell in love.
(c) He never went to the Louvre.
(d) He was a recluse himself.

3. What were Proust's main passions?
(a) Writing and reading.
(b) Literature and writing.
(c) Law and medicine.
(d) Reading and analyzing.

4. Which of the following people were not mentioned to have responded to the newspaper's poll?
(a) Berthe Bovy
(b) Gertrude Stein.
(c) Henri Bordeaux.
(d) Madame Fraya.

5. Who is Kate?
(a) De Botton's sister.
(b) De Botton's girlfriend.
(c) Proust's girlfriend.
(d) Proust's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Proust tell that he wanted his book to do for people what his father did for people?

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

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

4. What is the finger placing ability, according to De Botton?

5. Who was Proust's father's best selling book written for?

(see the answer key)

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