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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book of Essays 3 : Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The noble who is discussed in Book 1 of Essays: Chapter 4, Essay #46 organizes his dinner guests according to what?
(a) Height.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Area of land owned.
(d) Surname.

2. What scholar is quoted in the opening of Book 2 of Essays: Essay #1?
(a) Terrence.
(b) Kant.
(c) Smith.
(d) Hume.

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

4. Montaigne says that the ancient writer that he discusses near the beginning of Book 3 of Essays: Chapter 11 is extremely what?
(a) Progressive.
(b) Versatile.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Conservative.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What major factor significantly diminished the place of women in Britain?

2. Montaigne suggests that it is difficult to do what with war horses?

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

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

5. What famous work by St. Thomas Aquinas significantly affects Montaigne?

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