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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Proust's response to the newspaper's poll?
(a) That people would go into mass panic.
(b) That knowledge of imminent death would cause humans to apprciate life more fully.
(c) That people would begin to mend and repair estranged relationships.
(d) That people's social inhibitions would fall away.

2. What does De Botton claim humans are most dedicated to at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?
(a) Intellect.
(b) Love.
(c) Unhappiness.
(d) Happiness.

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

4. Who is Marcel Proust?
(a) A singer.
(b) A historian.
(c) The subject of De Botton's book.
(d) An politician.

5. What is the finger placing ability, according to De Botton?
(a) An increase in our own perceptive powers to discover something in us from our reading.
(b) The ability to understand the power of knowledge.
(c) The ability to point in any direction and find comfort in it.
(d) Being able to locate where you know something or someone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Proust write his novel that gave him international acclaim?

2. According to the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel" what did Proust hate?

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

4. What was Proust's father in particularly concerned with?

5. Which of the following people were not mentioned to have responded to the newspaper's poll?

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