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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Proust desire his reader to not do?
(a) Love from words.
(b) Read for experience.
(c) Let life pass them by too quickly.
(d) Love from experience.

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

3. How long is one sentence of Proust's in "In Search of Lost Time"?
(a) 4 and a half meters.
(b) 4 meters.
(c) 3 meters.
(d) 5 meters.

4. Who was Proust's father's best selling book written for?
(a) Mothers.
(b) Teenage girls.
(c) Teenage boys.
(d) Everyone.

5. What was the name of the comedy troupe that aimed to find the most succinct summary of Proust's work?
(a) Montey P.
(b) Money Pyton.
(c) Monty Python.
(d) Ponty Mython.

6. Who wrote Pensees?
(a) Blaise Pascal.
(b) Blaze Pascal.
(c) Blois Pasture.
(d) Pascal Blay.

7. Who was the artist of Old Man and the Boy?
(a) Garland Domenion.
(b) Domenico Ghirlandio.
(c) Domnico Ghirland.
(d) Ghirlandiouso.

8. Who is Kate?
(a) De Botton's girlfriend.
(b) Proust's girlfriend.
(c) De Botton's sister.
(d) Proust's mother.

9. What was the title of Proust's father's most successful book?
(a) "Elements to Good Health".
(b) "Promotions to Hygiene".
(c) "Hygiene Premises".
(d) "Elements of Hygiene".

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

11. How did Proust's friends react to Proust's relationship with his mother?
(a) They were bothered.
(b) They did not care.
(c) They were uncomfortable.
(d) They were annoyed.

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

13. How old was Proust when his attacks began?
(a) 9 years old.
(b) 12 years old.
(c) 10 years old.
(d) 11 years old.

14. What was Proust's father in particularly concerned with?
(a) Public intellect.
(b) Public learning.
(c) Public broadcasting.
(d) Public sanitation.

15. What question did the newspaper ask its readers that De Botton analyzes?
(a) How people would react when the third world war begins.
(b) How people would react to knowing when the end of the world will happen.
(c) How people would react if they saw their family killed.
(d) How people would react if everyone saw a thearapist

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Proust legendary for?

2. What was Proust's view towards romance like?

3. What was Proust's response to the newspaper's poll?

4. What did Proust explain after the article was written about the young boy who murdered his mom.

5. What does De Botton claim humans are most dedicated to at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?

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