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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book of Essays 2 : Chapter 8,.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Book 1 of Essays: Chapter 3, Essay #10, Montaigne says that the people he discusses view scars as marks of what?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Bravery.
(c) Strength.
(d) Experience.

3. What decision does Conrad make in one of Montaigne's stories about mercy?
(a) To let the women and children go.
(b) To let the defeated enemy leader live.
(c) To forgo a series of executions.
(d) To release every tenth prisoner.

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

5. Montaigne says that a fabricated storyline must be what?
(a) Unremarkable.
(b) Consistent.
(c) Ordinary.
(d) Predictable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Montaigne recommend to help a person develop self-awareness and uncensored thinking?

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

3. What was Montaigne's father's opinion on education?

4. What country did Montaigne's mother come from?

5. What language was this book originally written in?

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