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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5, Letters : Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Montaigne's religion?
(a) Lutheranism.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Zoroastrianism.
(d) Calvinism.

2. Montaigne states that his method for discussing the book that is the topic of Book 2 of Essays: Chapter 7, Essay #12 is based on the writings of what philosopher?
(a) St. Thomas Aquinas.
(b) Josephus.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Sophocles.

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

4. In Book 2 of Essays, Essay #11, Montaigne contrasts virtue with what?
(a) Cruelty.
(b) Permissiveness.
(c) Kindness.
(d) Vice.

5. What religion did Montaigne's mother belong to?
(a) Protestantism.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Islam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject does the first essay from Book 2 center on?

2. What does Montaigne say about how bad a vice lying is in general?

3. Which language, besides Latin, did Montaigne hear the mass given in during the holiday mass he observed at Saint Peter's?

4. What creature dose Montaigne discuss near the end of Book 2 of Essays: Chapter 7, Essay #12?

5. Montaigne's model for the rhetoric in his work is best described as what?

(see the answer key)

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