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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1 of Essays : Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Montaigne recommend to help a person develop self-awareness and uncensored thinking?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Morphine.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Solitude.

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

3. In Book 1 of Essays: Chapter 2, Montaigne describes how the prince of what region gained control over part of France?
(a) England.
(b) Wales.
(c) Normandy.
(d) Scotland.

4. Montaigne acknowledges that it is less of a vice to lie in order to avoid which of the following?
(a) Embarrassment.
(b) Appearing ignorant.
(c) Rudeness.
(d) Awkwardness.

5. In one of Montaigne's stories about mercy, what position does Conrad hold?
(a) General.
(b) King.
(c) Captain.
(d) Emperor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What subject does the second introduction for this book cover?

3. In Book 1 of Essays: Chapter 3, Essay #10, Montaigne says that the people he discusses view scars as marks of what?

4. What century did Montaigne live in?

5. About what percentage of Bordeaux's population died as a result of the major disease that hit it while Montaigne was in office there?

(see the answer key)

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