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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. The noble who is discussed in Book 1 of Essays: Chapter 4, Essay #46 holds a feast for whom?
(a) The nobles of France.
(b) English knights.
(c) Wealthy merchants.
(d) Priests and bishops.

2. Who was the target audience of the social experiment that Montaigne discusses near the end of Book 2 of Essays: Chapter 8?
(a) The aristocracy.
(b) The working class.
(c) The upper class.
(d) The nobility.

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

4. In one of Montaigne's stories, the man named Parmenio has to awaken whom?
(a) Alexander the Great.
(b) Julius Caesar.
(c) Caesar Augustus.
(d) Hannibal.

5. What subject does the second introduction for this book cover?
(a) Translation issues.
(b) Philosophy in general.
(c) Montaigne himself.
(d) The history of Europe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Near the end of Book 2 of Essays: Chapter 8, Montaigne discusses how and whether what type of results should be brought about?

2. Montaigne says that he feels what way with regards to knowing one individual who was brought back to Christianity due to the arguments in the book he discusses in Book 2 of Essay's: Chapter 7?

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

4. What subject does the first introduction for this book cover?

5. In Book 1 of Essays: Chapter 2, Essay #3, what city do the soldiers who were allowed to escape go on to attack?

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