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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Proust's mother's actions cause Proust to do?
(a) Be insecure.
(b) Be loving.
(c) Be clingy and helpless.
(d) Be annoying.

2. What does the examination of merits of art include in its survey?
(a) The title of the art.
(b) The artist's bipography.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The inspiration.

3. 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 go into mass panic.
(c) That people would begin to mend and repair estranged relationships.
(d) That people's social inhibitions would fall away.

4. What game did one person claim they would play in response to the newspaper's question?
(a) Golf.
(b) Croquet.
(c) Soccer.
(d) Basketball.

5. At the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel" what was the title of the newspaper De Botton analyzes?
(a) L'Intransigeant.
(b) Le Chronicle.
(c) Le Monde.
(d) L'Instangeint.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Proust tell that he wanted his book to do for people what his father did for people?

2. What type of physical attacks did Proust have growing up?

3. In what year did Proust's father die?

4. Which of the following people were not mentioned to have responded to the newspaper's poll?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Proust's opinion about knowledge of the end of the world contradict his own way of living?

2. Who is Jean-Baptiste Chardin?

3. Discuss the significance of the expectation of imagery in the young boy from Proust's essay.

4. What did Proust feel people should take their time to create?

5. Describe what Proust's writing was infamous for?

6. What does Proust say about friendship in the quotes De Botton gives in Chapter 6?

7. What solutions does Proust offer lover's to keep their love alive?

8. How was Proust affected by Ruskin?

9. What did Proust feel should be separated between a person and their friends?

10. How did Proust's lifestyle contradict his prompts to his readers?

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