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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Book of Essay's 3: Chapter 12 begins with a note from whom?
(a) Montaigne's wife.
(b) Montaigne's original publisher.
(c) The philosopher Terrence.
(d) The editor.

2. Montaigne is particularly interested in what quality of the waters of different regions?
(a) Flavor.
(b) Color.
(c) Clarity.
(d) Hardness.

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

4. Which language, besides Latin, did Montaigne hear the mass given in during the holiday mass he observed at Saint Peter's?
(a) Italian.
(b) Etruscan.
(c) Greek.
(d) German.

5. Montaigne writes that a wife should treat her husband as if he were what?
(a) Her master.
(b) Her pet.
(c) Her father.
(d) An equal.

6. In his writing, Montaigne avoids becoming excessively what?
(a) Literary.
(b) Extemporaneous.
(c) Familiar.
(d) Vulgar.

7. In what month did Montaigne arrive in Rome?
(a) March.
(b) June.
(c) November.
(d) September.

8. Montaigne's perspective causes him to focus on what?
(a) Moral and ethical issues.
(b) Causes and effects.
(c) Personal relations.
(d) Social hierarchy.

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

10. Montaigne's general attitude towards women was what?
(a) Respect.
(b) Dislike.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Tolerance.

11. Montaigne's writing does not appear to be what?
(a) Respectful.
(b) Condescending.
(c) Conventional.
(d) Approachable.

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

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

14. What types of things does Montaigne believe cannot be repented for?
(a) Blasphemies.
(b) Things outside of one's control.
(c) Violent crimes.
(d) Intentional murders.

15. The "truth" that Montaigne speaks of in the essay in Book 2 of Essays, "Of Repentance" is best described as what?
(a) Consensus reality.
(b) Objective.
(c) An illusion.
(d) Relative.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what month did the first part of Montaigne's journey start?

3. Where did Montaigne end the journeys that he describes in his travel journal?

4. Montaigne treated women without what?

5. During Montaigne's time, what day were markets typically held on?

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