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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book of Essays 2 : Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was unusual about what Gutenburg did with bibles?
(a) He interpreted them in a new way.
(b) He printed them in common languages.
(c) He distributed them for free.
(d) He sold them to non-Christians.

2. In one of Montiagne's stories, what does the man force the group of people to do as part of a social experiment?
(a) Blaspheme.
(b) Get drunk.
(c) Lie.
(d) Dance.

3. Which ancient Greek philosopher had a great affect on Montaigne?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Sophocles.
(d) Socrates.

4. Which of the following does NOT well-classify the quotations that Montaigne uses throughout his essays?
(a) Diverse.
(b) Numerous.
(c) Inexplicable.
(d) Short.

5. Montaigne describes how soldiers sometimes do what in desperate times?
(a) Sell their horses and armor.
(b) Trade their war horses for normal mounts.
(c) Drink the blood of their horses.
(d) Eat their horses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What factor tends to restrict the conditions for women?

2. In one of Montaigne's stories, the people who have a kind of social experiment performed on them are what?

3. In Book 2 of Essays, Essay #11, Montaigne contrasts virtue with what?

4. What language was the unusual book that Montaigne's father came into possession of written in?

5. What does Montaigne admit about himself in the essay in Book 2 of Essays, "Of Repentance"?

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