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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did some of Proust's friends term Proust's over affection and fawning nature?
(a) Proustist.
(b) Proustification.
(c) Prousting.
(d) Proustism.

2. In what year did Proust's father die?
(a) 1904.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1906.

3. How does De Botton believe Proust felt about his father?
(a) He was smart.
(b) He was motivating.
(c) He was intimidated.
(d) He was inspiring.

4. 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 to knowing when the end of the world will happen.
(d) How people would react when the third world war begins.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Proust grow dissatisfied with?

2. What is Pensees?

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

4. Who rejected the story about the unsatisfied young boy from being published?

5. What phrase does Proust use to explain one solution of keeping lover's love alive?

(see the answer key)

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