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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of argument does Montaigne make regarding the book that he discusses in Book 2 of Essays: Chapter 7, Essay #12?
(a) Extemporaneous.
(b) Elective.
(c) Didactic.
(d) Discursive.

2. Which of the following does NOT well-classify the quotations that Montaigne uses throughout his essays?
(a) Short.
(b) Inexplicable.
(c) Numerous.
(d) Diverse.

3. Montaigne suggests that what element of child-rearing common in his own time is not necessary?
(a) Swaddling clothes.
(b) Pacifiers.
(c) Strollers.
(d) A crib.

4. Montaigne believes that not all vices are what?
(a) Evil.
(b) Unjustified.
(c) Equal.
(d) Harmful.

5. How often does Montaigne criticize the book that he translated in his discussion of it?
(a) His discussion is full of criticism.
(b) Very often.
(c) Occasionally.
(d) Never.

Short Answer Questions

1. Montaigne describes how soldiers sometimes do what in desperate times?

2. In one of Montiagne's stories, what does the man force the group of people to do as part of a social experiment?

3. The creature that Montaigne discuss near the end of Book 2 of Essays: Chapter 7, Essay #12 is able to exert a limited control over what?

4. What country did Montaigne's mother come from?

5. What language was the unusual book that Montaigne's father came into possession of written in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Montaigne says about the equality of vices?

2. What is strange about the way Feudalism tends to divide territory?

3. What was the unusual book that Montaigne translated for his father?

4. What unusual rule did Knights of the Spanish order that Montaigne discusses have to obey, and why?

5. What is Montaigne's opinion on evil means used for a good end?

6. What decision does the soldier have to make in Book 1 of Essays: Chapter 2, Essay #3?

7. What important contribution did Gutenburg make?

8. What factors in Europe tended to restrict the social status of women?

9. What problem does Henry, the duke of Normandy, experience in one of Montaigne's stories?

10. What consequences did his father's opinion on education have on Montaigne?

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