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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Travel Journal : Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Montaigne says that extra time is often allotted to prepare war horses for what?
(a) Breeding.
(b) Battle.
(c) Training.
(d) Shoeing.

2. What female features significantly in Montaigne's faith?
(a) Mary, mother of God.
(b) Mary Magdalene.
(c) Fatima.
(d) Pallas.

3. What religion was Montaigne raised in?
(a) Lutheranism.
(b) Calvinism.
(c) Anglicanism.
(d) Catholicism.

4. What scholar is quoted in the opening of Book 2 of Essays: Essay #1?
(a) Hume.
(b) Terrence.
(c) Kant.
(d) Smith.

5. In Book 1 of Essays: Chapter 3, Essay #48, Montaigne discusses an unusual rule instituted by knights of what nation?
(a) Germany.
(b) Spain.
(c) France.
(d) Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What social class was Montaigne born into?

2. Which historian does Montaigne discuss as having written one of the first official histories of Rome?

3. Montaigne characterizes most of the "common people" as being what?

4. What language was this book originally written in?

5. Montaigne says that a fabricated storyline must be what?

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