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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does abbreviation not do justice for?
(a) The course of human emotions.
(b) The course of human events.
(c) The course of human relationships.
(d) The course of human interactions.

2. How old was Proust when he died?
(a) 51 years old.
(b) 41 years old.
(c) 53 years old.
(d) 65 years old.

3. 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) Being able to locate where you know something or someone.
(c) The ability to point in any direction and find comfort in it.
(d) The ability to understand the power of knowledge.

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

5. What does De Botton coin the term of reader's seeing themselves in works of fiction as?
(a) The Marquis de Lau Phenomenon.
(b) MLB.
(c) The self Marquis scene.
(d) MFP.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel" what was the title of the newspaper De Botton analyzes?

2. What list does Proust develop at the end of Chapter 2?

3. Who wrote Pensees?

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

5. What does De Botton suggest about human bodies?

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