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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. What creature dose Montaigne discuss near the end of Book 2 of Essays: Chapter 7, Essay #12?
(a) The rat.
(b) The hedgehog.
(c) The raccoon.
(d) The mole.

2. What social class was Montaigne born into?
(a) The merchant class.
(b) Foreign class.
(c) The nobility.
(d) The commoner's class.

3. In Book 2 of Essays, Essay #11, Montaigne contrasts virtue with what?
(a) Permissiveness.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Vice.
(d) Cruelty.

4. Montaigne characterizes his parents' treatment of him as which of the following?
(a) Lenient.
(b) Harsh.
(c) Distant.
(d) Gentle.

5. At the time that Montaigne was engaged in his translation of the unusual book, what philosophy was gaining significant popularity?
(a) Empiricism.
(b) Lutheranism.
(c) Calvinism.
(d) Predestination.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which philosopher does Montaigne most often quote?

2. In Book 1 of Essays: Chapter 2, Essays #4 and #5, Montaigne says that many consider deceit to be an essential part of what?

3. In one of Montaigne's stories, the man named Parmenio has to awaken whom?

4. Montaigne writes that a wife should treat her husband as if he were what?

5. Montaigne suggests that the difference between a man and an animal is less than the difference between a man and what?

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