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

2. How was Proust's personal life at odds with the answer he gave to the newspaper's question?
(a) He was a recluse himself.
(b) He never went to the Louvre.
(c) He never traveled to India.
(d) He never fell in love.

3. Who is Marquis de Lau?
(a) A friend of Proust's.
(b) A well known figure in Spain.
(c) A well known figure in Paris.
(d) A well known figure in Rome.

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

5. How many books did Proust's father publish?
(a) 35.
(b) 34.
(c) 43.
(d) 32.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Proust feel in response to the article about the boy murdering his mother?

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

3. Why would Proust sometimes examine a mundane train timetable?

4. What is the finger placing ability, according to De Botton?

5. What does De Botton say to suggest it makes sense for De Botton to become an author?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Proust feel about Claude Monet?

2. Why was it fitting that Proust became a writer?

3. How did Proust feel humans would react to having the knowledge of when the end of the world is?

4. What are the dangers of reading?

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

6. What was Proust's passion?

7. Describe Proust's opinion of newspapers.

8. Describe the way Proust died.

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

10. Describe how Proust's friends think of him according to the quotes in Chapter 6.

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