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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an artist's role in the judgment of art?
(a) He or she is important.
(b) He or she is unimportant.
(c) To remain subjective.
(d) To remain objective.

2. What was Proust's father's occupation?
(a) He was a writer.
(b) He was a teacher.
(c) He was a doctor.
(d) He was a lawyer.

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

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

5. What would Proust probe the train timetable for?
(a) Meaning and value.
(b) Values.
(c) Stories and value.
(d) Meaning.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many meals a day did Proust have?

2. What does Proust urge his readers to focus on?

3. Who is Marquis de Lau?

4. What was Proust's father's name?

5. In response to the newspaper's poll, what did one person think would happen to people's inhibitions?

(see the answer key)

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