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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. Who was the recipient of most of Montaigne's letters?
(a) Henry III.
(b) Montaigne's wife.
(c) Mashal de Matignon.
(d) Montaigne's father.

2. What method of governance dominated Europe in Montaigne's time?
(a) Constitutional monarchy.
(b) Feudalism.
(c) Parliamentary democracy.
(d) Dictatorship.

3. Montaigne's sees which of the following as being the role of a man?
(a) Cooperation.
(b) Intellectual pursuit.
(c) Leadership.
(d) Subdominance.

4. What nation did Guiseppe defect to?
(a) The Iberians.
(b) The Saracens.
(c) The Moors.
(d) The Turks.

5. The relationship that Montaigne warned against was common among what ancient people?
(a) The Romans.
(b) The Egyptians.
(c) The Carthaginians.
(d) The Greeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most of the essays that follow Book 2 of Essays, Essay #12, Apology to Raymond Sebond center on what subject?

2. How does Montaigne describe the useful substance that can be gathered from some public water?

3. In the culture Montaigne describes, women were discouraged from visiting public baths if they were what?

4. Montaigne doubts affection that is based on what?

5. Montaigne says that the Roman dishes are superior to French dishes made of what?

(see the answer key)

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