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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 De Botton suggest about human bodies?
(a) They are ugly.
(b) They lack security.
(c) They are insufficient.
(d) Humans become unhappy as our bodies go frail.

2. What did Proust have a fear of?
(a) Flying.
(b) Mice and cheese.
(c) Heights and falling.
(d) Mice and heights.

3. What would Proust write to his mother and tell her about?
(a) The quality of his stool.
(b) His most recent friendship.
(c) His latest girlfriend.
(d) His last writing.

4. What does Proust's description of the Duchesse de Guermantes reminds De Botton of?
(a) The step mother of an ex girlfriend.
(b) His ex girlfriend.
(c) His sister.
(d) His step mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Proust's father's occupation?

2. Who is Gilberte?

3. Where did Proust's father take Proust when he was a child?

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

5. Who did Proust write to in the letter De Botton shares in Chapter 8?

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