This document provides an introduction and instructions for a Proust Questionnaire assignment for a humanities course. It lists 27 questions for students to answer in complete sentences to help the professor better understand each student. The questions cover topics like what makes them happy, their fears, people they admire, regrets, loves, talents, and values. It instructs students to attach additional sheets if needed to fully answer the questions.

1. INTRODUCTION TO HUMANITIES
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NAME: • PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE • SCORE:
Please answer the following questions in complete sentences. There are no incorrect answers to these
questions – with the exception of “I don’t know”. Attach additional sheets as necessary if the spaces
provided are insufficient.
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
2. What is your greatest fear?
3. Which living person do you most admire?
4. What is your favorite journey?
5. What do you consider the most overrated
virtue?
6. On what occasion do you lie?
7. What do you dislike most about your
appearance?
8. Which words or phrases do you most
overuse?
9. What is your greatest regret?
10. What or who is the greatest love of your
life?
11. When and where were you happiest?
12. Which talent would you like most to have?
13. What is your current state of mind?
14. If you could change one thing about
yourself, what would it be?
15. If you could change one thing about your
family, what would it be?
16. What do you consider your biggest
achievement?
17. If you were to die and come back as one
person or thing, what do you think it would
be?
18. If you could choose what to come back as,
what would it be?
19. What is your most treasured possession?

2. 20. What do you regard as the lowest depth of
misery?
21. Where would you like to live?
22. What is your most marked characteristic?
23. What do you most value in your friends?
24. Who are your heroes in real life?
25. What is it that you most dislike?
26. How would you like to die?
27. What is your motto?