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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 does Proust urge his readers to focus on?
(a) The future.
(b) The past.
(c) The present.
(d) History.
2. What does De Botton reason at the beginning of "How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel"?
(a) Lust isthe driving force between all people.
(b) There are plenty of things humans should be unhappy about.
(c) There are plenty of things humans should be happy about.
(d) Love is the driving force between all people.
3. What does De Botton suggest about human social life?
(a) It is insincere.
(b) It is necessary.
(c) It is sincere.
(d) It is unnecessary.
4. What is Proust legendary for?
(a) His long description of architecture.
(b) His elaborate home.
(c) His elaborate and long descriptions.
(d) His companionship.
5. Who is Albertine?
(a) Proust's sister.
(b) Proust's mother.
(c) A character in Proust's book.
(d) Proust's girlfriend.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Proust have a fear of?
2. How many meals a day did Proust have?
3. Who did Proust tell that he wanted his book to do for people what his father did for people?
4. What was Proust considered to be in the 1920s?
5. What was Proust allergic to?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Proust argue people were not being when they used cliches?
2. What does De Botton reason the finger placing ability evokes in its readers?
3. What did Proust feel people should take their time to create?
4. Describe how Proust felt when people used trite and cliched expressions.
5. What is the L'Intransigeant?
6. How did Proust's friends feel about Proust's relationship with his mother?
7. How did Proust respond to the newspaper article about the young boy who murdered his mother?
8. How did Proust's opinion about knowledge of the end of the world contradict his own way of living?
9. Describe Proust's physical health.
10. How did Proust behave around his friends?
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