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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 major factor significantly diminished the place of women in Britain?
(a) Coastal trade.
(b) Metal smithing.
(c) The Magna Carta.
(d) Christianity.

2. What major disease hit Bordeaux while Montaigne was in office there?
(a) Influenza.
(b) Typhus.
(c) Small pox.
(d) Bubonic plague.

3. What treatment of children by parents does Montaigne cite as leading to specific character traits?
(a) Neglect.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Violence.
(d) Scolding.

4. What factor tends to restrict the conditions for women?
(a) Warfare.
(b) Economic booms.
(c) Religion.
(d) Drought.

5. Montaigne describes how soldiers sometimes do what in desperate times?
(a) Sell their horses and armor.
(b) Eat their horses.
(c) Trade their war horses for normal mounts.
(d) Drink the blood of their horses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What philosopher does Montaigne quote briefly on the subject of authority?

2. Montaigne says that a fabricated storyline must be what?

3. In one of Montaigne's stories, the man who performs a kind of social experiment on people of a lower social station had what profession?

4. What does the unusual rule Montaigne discusses in Book 1 of Essays: Chapter 3, Essay #48 stipulate?

5. What philosopher did Montaigne believe to have been a major influence on the unusual book that he translated?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Montaigne say about the difference between a man and an animal.

2. Why was Montaigne arrested in Paris in 1588?

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

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

5. Why does Montaigne think that Christianity is superior to other religions?

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

7. How does Montaigne suggest that virtue is different from kindliness?

8. What dose Montaigne say that soldiers sometimes have to resort to for survival?

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

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

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