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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Montaigne believe about action and words?
(a) Words are much more important.
(b) Neither is important compared to intentions.
(c) They must both be employed.
(d) Actions are much more important.

2. The baths that Montaigne discusses are notable for being what?
(a) Heated.
(b) Sulfurous.
(c) Public.
(d) Rejuvinative.

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

4. Book 3 of Essays contains how many essays?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Five.

5. During Montaigne's time, what day were markets typically held on?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Friday.
(d) Thursday.

6. Which historian does Montaigne discuss as having written one of the first official histories of Rome?
(a) Livy.
(b) Livicitus.
(c) Cato.
(d) Pliny.

7. In what month do the travels described in Travel Journal: Chapter 13 begin?
(a) February.
(b) October.
(c) April.
(d) June.

8. Montaigne relates the rumors that certain baths are supposed to have powers related to what?
(a) Healing.
(b) Virility.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Strength.

9. Why did Montaigne write his travel journals?
(a) For his wife.
(b) As notes for a novel.
(c) For personal use.
(d) For wide publication.

10. What important female leader was a native of Montaigne's nation?
(a) Queen Isabelle.
(b) Joan of Arc.
(c) Dido.
(d) Queen Elizabeth.

11. Montaigne warns against the dangers of a relationship between what types of people?
(a) A woman and a boy.
(b) Two women.
(c) A man and a boy.
(d) Two men.

12. St. George is said to have slain what?
(a) A minotaur.
(b) A sea monster.
(c) A dragon.
(d) A demon.

13. How does Montaigne describe the useful substance that can be gathered from some public water?
(a) A green paste.
(b) White and crusty.
(c) A grey film.
(d) White and foamy.

14. Montaigne writes that a wife should guard against her husband, regarding him as if he were what?
(a) A criminal.
(b) A liar.
(c) A cheater.
(d) A traitor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The journeys that Montaigne describes in his travel journal mostly occurred between what years?

2. Guiseppe was skilled in what area?

3. Montaigne is impressed by Roman dishes that are made of what material?

4. What nation did Guiseppe defect to?

5. The "truth" that Montaigne speaks of in the essay in Book 2 of Essays, "Of Repentance" is best described as what?

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