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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2 of Essays : Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What country did Montaigne's mother come from?
(a) Spain.
(b) Italy.
(c) Corsica.
(d) Morocco.

3. Montaigne suggests that a kindly person goes through life inclined towards what?
(a) Further kindliness.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Slow moral degradation.
(d) Sloth.

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

5. Montaigne's father asked him to translate the unusual book discussed in Book 2 of Essays: Essay #12 into what language?
(a) French.
(b) Italian.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Latin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Montaigne acknowledges that it is less of a vice to lie in order to avoid which of the following?

2. What major disease hit Bordeaux while Montaigne was in office there?

3. Montaigne suggests that deceit requires a great deal of what?

4. Montaigne specifically suggests that mastering what desire is a good example of virtue?

5. Montaigne suggests that most war horses were not what?

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